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  1. Ira Glass interviews his cousin composer Philip Glass

    It’s no coincidence that composer Philip Glass and This American Life host Ira Glass have the same last name: They’re second cousins, but they didn’t know each other well when the Field Museum in the Chicago asked Ira to interview Philip on stage in 1999.

    On today’s Fresh Air, we replay excerpts from that conversation in honor of Philip’s 75th birthday, which is Tuesday.

    Philip Glass is one of the fathers of minimalist music. He started off writing for his ensemble and went on to write operas, dances and film scores, including the music for Koyaanisqatsi, Kundun, The Fog of War, No Reservations and The Thin Blue Line.

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  2. Composer Interviews | Mark Snow Interview on ScoreNotes.com

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  3. John Ottman Interview

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  4. Murray Gold Interview - 2009

    Interviews with composers, directors and more on ScoreNotes.com (presented in audio)

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  5. Greg Edmonson (Firefly) Interview

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  6. Carter Burwell Interview

    Interviews with composers, directors and more on ScoreNotes.com (presented in audio)

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  7. Boston Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams

    As an extension of this week's concerts that have two segments, Villains of the Silver Screen and Heroes of the Silver Screen, John Williams talks with Pops broadcast producer Brian Bell about bringing these characters to music. He also discusses his new Oboe Concerto as well as turning 80 (!!) next year.

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  8. JOHN WILLIAMS Interview at NEA

    A 28-minute audio interview with John Williams from last month is available at the National Endowment for the Arts website as a podcast.

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  9. Obsessive Choral: Extreme Simplicity and Extreme Complexity

    Today, Benjamin Britten and other 20th Century luminaries. Is there anything better than his Te Deum in C? If you can make it through "…whom that hast redeemed with thy precious blood" without losing your mind, you are more dignified than I.

    The complicated, Purcellian verse anthem-cum-cantata Rejoice in the Lamb has the best dotted rhythm in the Alleluia. Then, two miniatures: a Ralph Vaughan Williams coronation nibblet, an Elizabeth Poston gesture, some complexity from Michael Tippett, a long scale from Pärt, who contributes a severe bass drum and tam-tam, and finally, Britten’s iconic, gorgeous, untouchably beautiful Hymn to the Virgin.

    If I could bottle my excitement when I was given the semichoir part in this piece at the age of 11, I could sell it all up and down Soho.

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  10. Obsessive Choral: Howells and Stanford

    I live for cheesy mid-century choral music. Today: Herbert Howells and Charles Villiers Stanford.

    Howells, who half-ironically styled himself after his Collegiate predecessors, knew his way around long, long lines. The melodies in Howells unfold like taffy: endless, unctuously unfolding strings of notes (usually with a million flats in the key signature). Stanford, for his part, can work a melody: check out the treble solo "I will stand upon my rock" halfway through his bellicose and insane anthem For Lo, I Raise Up.

    The Howells Collegium Regale service (an absurd way of saying that he wrote it for King’s College) is one of the short list of pieces I can sing all the way through from memory anytime, anywhere. The Gloria Patri in the Magnificat is, I think, the best thing England has produced since the Heptarchy.

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