Front Row - US Composers: Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams
Download US Composers: Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams
Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Adams are America's greatest living composers. Between them, they have helped change the way music is made and heard, repeating rhythms, highlighting melodies and overlapping time signatures to create new musical languages that are widely heard in the looped and sampled soundtrack to the 21st century. As they reach milestone birthdays, they talk to John Wilson about their work, and about the musical movement that links the three of them - Minimalism.
Playlist:
Philip Glass - Closing
Steve Reich - Clapping
John Adams - Phrygian Gates
Bartok - Concerto For Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra, 3rd movt
Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
Bach Brandenburg 5
Charlie Parker - Be Bop
Tchaikovsky's - 1812 Overture
Bozo the Clown
Philip Glass - Dance 8
Steve Reich - Livelihood
John Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls
Steve Reich - Different Trains
Philip Glass - Floe
Philip Glass - Facades
Steve Reich - Clapping
Steve Reich - Piano Phase
Steve Reich - Drumming
Steve Reich - Clapping
John Adams - Grand Pianola Music
Philip Glass - Knee Play 1 from Einstein on the Beach
Philip Glass - Evening Song from Satyagraha
John Adams - The People Are The Heroes Now from Nixon in China
Steve Reich - The Cave
John Adams - Hallelujah Junction
Philip Glass - The Hours
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.
Published on Monday, 2nd January 2017.
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