KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Interview with Philip Glass, Jan. 25, 1985
Analog Audio
Event Type
InterviewsOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
MC.1985.04.11Program Series
Morning ConcertProgram Length
53 minDates
1985-04-11 | broadcast| 1985-01-25 | created
Description
In a recording made on January 25, 1985, Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Philip Glass about his ensemble’s scheduled April 21, 1985 performance at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Glass, one of the best known composers of minimal or repetitive music discusses this style of music and the difficulty he has experienced in getting musicians to accept it and to learn to play it well. Glass points out that despite peoples impressions that his music is somehow simple in structure or relies on overdubbing and delays, it is in fact highly complex, irregular, and is performed without any technological assistance. This is a stunningly eloquent defense of new music by two of the genres most prominent proponents.Genres
MinimalismNew music
Subjects
Minimal musicNew music
Avant-garde (Music)
Opera
Music theater
Musicians
Music critics
Music audiences
Music -- History and criticism
Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Glass, PhilipAmirkhanian, Charles