Welcome to episode 41 of that classical podcast this time one music part three.

Hello my name's Chris Bland my name name's Kelly Harlock. And you're listening to

episode 41 of that classical podcast. Welcome everybody. Today we're going

back to the future once again for another episode on Modern Classical Music.

And what do we mean when we say that, Chris?

Well, it's Classical Music, so Modern is a very relative term, obviously.

But we're talking about music that was written in the later half of the

20th century or the 21st century so stuff within living memory you know with that

in mind the first piece we're gonna to talk about today was actually written in

1983 going to the 80s the decade of big hair bigger shoulder pads and blue blue

eye shadow everywhere for no reason The decade that style truly forgot. However, the piece that we're going to be talking about is an opera. So it's called Aqna Ten and is by the minimalist composer Philip Glass.

He used to be a cab driver in New York.

Really?

Yeah, true story.

What a great nugget of info.

You are so welcome, mate.

Continue. So, Philip Glass, as I said, was a minimalist, so the same sort of

of style as people like Terry Riley, Steve Reich, these kind of guys.

Minimalism, meaning that a small idea

is repeated over and over again,

gradually becomes more complex and thicker and fuller.

Obviously, there's a lot more to it than that but that basically is one.

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