Arts
Tones, Drones and Arpeggios: The Magic of Minimalism
BBC FOUR, 9.00PM
In this concluding part of this fascinating exploration of minimalism, conductor Charles Hazlewood shifts his focus to New York. There he meets minimalism’s greatest living exponents, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, whose iconoclastic approach produced works that are “angular, unrelenting, as powerful as rock ’n’ roll”. Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, for example, opened up a range of new possibilities for classical music. TD