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Supporting Content

• Introducing seven essential Glass pieces with tasters of all the music, clips and a quiz.

  

• Vaughan Williams Today

  Programmes, concerts and features celebrating Vaughan Williams's 150th anniversary.

  

• Beethoven Unleashed – the box set

  The complete set of Radio 3 Beethoven Unleashed podcasts, with Donald Macleod.

  

• What was really wrong with Beethoven?

  Georgia Mann and neurosurgeon Henry Marsh examine the composer's numerous health problems

  

• Composers A to Z

  Visit the extensive audio archive of Radio 3 programmes about Composers and their works.

  

• Who knew? Five eye-opening stories from Composer of the Week

  The production team reflects on 5 of Donald Macleod’s best stories from the last 20 years

  

• What is the strange power of Jerusalem which makes strong men weep?

  

• The composer of Jerusalem was very far from the conservative figure his image suggests.

  

• Find resources and contacts for composers from within the classical music industry.

  

• The origins of minimalism

  Philip Glass defines his music and discusses the real origins of the term, 'minimalism'.

  Duration: 2:55

• Philip Glass: Façades

  Glass explains how Façades was rejected by a film-maker then achieved wide popularity.

  Duration: 2:10

• Philip Glass: From Symphony No.6 (Plutonian Ode) (2002) – 2nd movement

  'A dramatic setting for soprano of Alan Ginsberg's apocalyptic vision of US militarism.'

  Duration: 1:11

• Philip Glass: From Akhnaten (1983) – Hymn (Act 2 Scene.4)

  'Akhnaten has beautiful melodic writing and a genuinely archaic atmosphere.'

  Duration: 0:51
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• Philip Glass (1937-)