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From the Archive: Philip Glass' Music in Twelve Parts

This week we revisit a series of interviews with musicians James McVinnie, Eliza McCarthy and Timo Andres, about the rare performance of composer Philip Glass's ‘Music In Twelve Parts’ in May 2017. A milestone in minimalist music, slowly revealing itself through hypnotic patterns of change over four hours. 

 

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Cosmic composers

What does it mean to live a small, finite life in a possibly infinite, eternal universe? With the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska, Professor Brian Cox sets out to explore what he considers ‘the only interesting existential question’

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Online Exhibition: It All Comes Down

Explore an online exhibition by our Young Visual Arts Group, showcasing 70 artworks exploring the impermanence of social structures, the relationship between the individual & the collective and how the self is shaped by a dramatically changing world.

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Finding the wonder

Anna Beecher and Rachel Lincoln, founders of theatre company Akin explore what inspired their upcoming online show for under-fives.