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TV music: the top 10 worst cliches

5524 days ago
Guardian Music — We run down the most overused repeat offenders, from REM's Everybody Hurts to Blur's Song 2 – but which did we miss?No one expects experimental new music to accompany TV montages of people sobbing in slow motion or wearily sanding floors. But latel... more info

1,000 Airplanes on the Roof – review

5533 days ago
Guardian Music — National Museum of Flight, East FortunePhilip Glass's 1988 "science fiction music drama", as he termed it, has remained a rarity despite the current fad for Glass revivals. Maybe that's because it's hard to match the original site-specific setting: 1... more info

Review: Pin-wheeling bliss from the Philip Glass Ensemble, at the composer's own festival

5549 days ago
Mercury News, California — The first of two retrospectives of the composer's music showed him to be a '60s boy at heart: exploding suns, rattling riffs, Indian-inspired rhythms more info

Review: Terrific, intimate opening for Philip Glass' Days and Nights Festival in Carmel Valley

5563 days ago
Mercury News, California — Other musicians bring out detail at Days, Nights event more info

Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review

5563 days ago
Guardian Music — Various venues, EdinburghA short stint in Edinburgh during festival time, even in fine weather which for the most part it decidedly wasn't, can leave you like a ship struggling against a powerful headwind. On day one, the experience of fighting off a... more info

Opera in the modern age

5564 days ago
Guardian Music — What of opera today? We look at the last few decades and find not only the stories, but the music and the very form itself have been reinventedAt the beginning of the 20th century, when modernism began to undermine the basic grammar of music, some of... more info

Edinburgh Festival 2011: The Qatsi Trilogy , Edinburgh Playhouse, review

5567 days ago
The Telegraph — Something grand and moving was created in Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio's collaboration at the Edinburgh Playhouse. more info

Philip Glass's inaugural Day and Nights Festival kicks off this week in Carmel Valley

5571 days ago
Mercury News, California — This three-week event celebrates music, dance, theater, poetry and film, and the thread running through it is composer/pianist Glass, who at age 74, seems not to know the meaning of 'slow down.' more info

New band of the day – No 1,081: A Winged Victory for the Sullen

5573 days ago
Guardian Music — Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie mix classical, ambient and post-rock sounds to create music with grand (piano) ambitionsHometown: California/Berlin.The lineup: Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie.The background: You may have heard that there's a ri... more info

Steve Reich at 75: the rebel who changed classical music

5574 days ago
Guardian Music — The American composer has never compromised to fit in with classical music. Instead, it has changed to accommodate himOn Wednesday 10 August, Steve Reich has a 75th birthday concert at the Proms. He's celebrating with Germany's finest new-music group... more info

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