Raising a glass ... to glass!

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, “The Glass Menagerie,” Studio 360 is devoting a whole hour to the art of glass. Kurt Andersen and architect Frances Bronet tour the glass towers of Midtown Manhattan to see firsthand the architectural legacy of the Bauhaus. After Hillary Clinton failed to break the glass ceiling in 2016, artist Bunny Burson found a use for her unused victory confetti. And Philip Glass shares how he went from taxi driver to star composer overnight.

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:06.0	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.1	Most of them are little animals made out of glass.
0:11.4	Mother calls it my glass menagerie.
0:14.3	It's our hour of glass, Tennessee Williams' glass menagerie,
0:18.5	and splendid glass buildings by architects from the Bauhaus.
0:22.7	You actually feel something about being in a space which has been so well articulated that it actually moves you.
0:33.2	And composer Philip Glass on his spectacular Einstein on the beach, the big breakthrough he was waiting for.
0:42.5	Look, I wasn't willing to drive a taxi for the rest of my life.
0:45.4	Which you did into your 40s?
0:46.6	Into my 40s.
0:47.4	Yeah.
0:48.3	All that and much more is ahead on Studio 360.
0:51.1	Right after this...
0:54.5	Break. ...waddy, oneaddy, wannaddy, wannaddy, wannaddy, wanted to do. Studio 360 right after this break. This is Studio 360.
0:55.7	I'm Cronozy, Wannaddy, Wondonty, Wondonty, Wondonty, Wondonty, Wondon,
0:59.8	this is Studio 360.
1:09.7	I'm Curtis, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This first level of gardens. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.1	This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden. I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
1:18.1	Very well done.
1:19.2	Editing is all about timing. I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:23.5	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
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