Classical music is the new classical

... says Philip Glass in conversation with Nico Muhly. But back in the early 1960s ‘the world of new concert music had reached a virtual dead end'. Joanna McGregor on Harrison Birtwistle is worth reading as well. Birtwistle's spirit of space below and here.


And Harry's cheesy private passions are here.
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