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Five-hour avant garde Philip Glass opera among ENO’s Manchester plans

Programme for company’s move north includes Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, Britten and a new youth company

The Guardian - UK

Tony Todd obituary

Star of the Candyman horror films whose other movies included The Crow, Platoon and The Rock

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Yuja Wang x Hockney; Proms 61 & 62: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rattle – review

Surrounded by giant projections of her friend David Hockney’s art show, star pianist Yuja Wang pushes the boundaries of what a concert can be

The Guardian - UK

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Timo Andres: The Blind Banister album review – original, arresting and eclectic

These three works showcase the US composer’s distinctive and accomplished musical language

The Guardian - UK

"It was fun being friends with him. He was like a wizard": when you're David Bowie's favourite band, life gets kinda magical

"When we found out we were David Bowie’s favourite band, it was like god came down to me"

Louder

Ben Whishaw as Nick Cave? Score some leftfield music biopic ideas here

Priscilla, Maestro and the upcoming One Love revolve around pitch-perfect impersonations of A-list icons. But what about the bangers yet to be greenlit about less mainstream musicians?

The Guardian - UK

The top 5 GTA reveal trailer theme songs of all time

Grand Theft Advent | Tom Petty's Love Is a Long Road is the latest reveal trailer tune, but where does it rank among the series' best?

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A Legendary Director Is Funding the Future of Experimental Sci-Fi

As executive producer of 'Divinity' and 'Once Within a Time,' Steven Soderbergh is backing two of the year’s most thrillingly experimental and independently minded sci-fi head-trips.

Inverse

Scottish folk music continues to inspire Hollywood composer

Paul Leonard-Morgan discusses how his time in Glasgow is still influencing his TV and film work.

The National (Scotland)

CSO-commissioned work by Philip Glass a triumph for composer, maestro and orchestra

Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra soared on the wings of the world premiere of Glass’ “The Triumph of the Octagon.”

Chicago Sun-Times

‘His work seems endless’: music stars pay tribute to the incredible life of Moondog

The eccentric musician, dressed like a Viking playing songs on the streets of New York, is being celebrated by names such as Rufus Wainwright and Jarvis Cocker on a new album

The Guardian - US

Fall classical music preview: An early-music collaboration and 10 more highlights of the season

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

Chicago Sun-Times

Levon Vincent: "A nice vintage synth can sound pretty good, but if you layer that with the punch of software it sounds ten times better"

Dance chameleon Levon Vincent plugs straight into the techno grid with fifth album, Work In Progress. Danny Turner finds out more

MusicRadar

TikTok organist Anna Lapwood at the BBC Proms review: an entrancing performance from a one-woman orchestra

Lapwood deployed the organ’s entire range, from the merest whisper to stadium-rock pomp at full volume

Evening Standard

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Vast Swatch auction includes collaborations with Keith Haring, Philip Glass and Vivienne Westwood

LAMA’s Swatch auction of artist Esther Montagner’s collection sees over 600 pieces go under the hammer

The Guardian - UK

Infinity review – strangely insubstantial family drama from Philip Glass

Singer and actor Tara Hugo delivers a series of spoken word reminiscences backed by an underwhelming score in a piece that verges on the self-indulgent and downright sentimental

The Guardian - UK

‘If I can’t have coffee, I’ll put Philip Glass on’: Katie Melua’s honest playlist

The singer used to know Eminem word for word and secretly loves a certain ocean-going ballad, but which of her own songs can’t she bear any more?

Evening Standard

Akhnaten at the ENO review: hallucinatory revival of Philip Glass opera is blistering and bold

Akhnaten is an eccentric kind of performance art, simultaneously gaudy and glamorous, mysterious and nonsensical

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2023-24 season ushers in new era

Music director Riccardo Muti will be stepping down from his post, but will remain an integral part of the orchestra’s operations and will return to the podium for a series of concerts.

The Guardian - UK

The Woolf pack: Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning The Hours into opera

The Pulitzer-prize-winning, Mrs Dalloway-influenced novel about three generations of women, has finally hit the stage. Its stars tell us how they pulled it off

Evening Standard

Loraine James interview: ‘It’s a very weird time to be gay. Things are going a bit far-right’

The acclaimed musician‘s new album pays homage to ‘forgotten’ black, queer composer Julius Eastman - she talks erasure of black artists and why she turns down most music festivals

Chicago Sun-Times

The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago Sept. 8-14

Lakeview East Festival of the Arts, Renegade Craft Fair, and Third Percussion in concert are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

The Guardian - UK

Proms & ENO: Glass Handel review – arias meet beatboxing in a creative but baffling cacophony

Anthony Roth Costanzo’s neon-lit ‘operatic experience’ brought together Handel and Philip Glass plus dancers, a painter … and films of erotic puddings

Evening Standard

Pick of the BBC Proms 2022: Presenters on the concerts they can’t wait to see

From the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, to a celebration of Aretha Franklin and the music of video games, BBC TV presenters on the Proms not to miss this summer

The Guardian - UK

Akusmi: Fleeting Future review – minimalism meets rave pentatonics

French composer Pascal Bideau rearranges hypnotic gamelan riffs into complex magic that recalls Reich and Nyman with a touch of Motown

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