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In 1976, the New York premiere of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson\\u2019s \\u201cEinstein on the Beach\\u201d captivated audiences, polarized critics and put both artists on the map of contemporary performance art. In four-and-a half hours, its famously reductive score, enigmatic text and limpid, tensile choreography (by Lucinda Childs) teases out the meaning of the time/space continuum.