Adventures in motion and pitches: how minimalism shook up classical music

Conductor Charles Hazlewood on the sounds that sparked a cultural revolution and redrew musical boundariesWhen I was an organ scholar at Oxford University in the late 80s the very idea that Kraftwerk and Japan were as important to me as Mozart and Poulenc incited scorn from my tutors. I was warned that I would never be taken seriously as a musician if I didn’t give up my passion for rock’n’roll. But no matter how stern the warning to stifle my dark side, I continued to love ...

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