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genre:Contemporary Classical
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Jun 15
Shaker Loops
John Adams · 1978 Spin it Again - Minimalism’s hidden masterpiece — Adams wrote it at 31, before Nixon in China, and it still sounds like the future.
genre:Contemporary Classical
Jun 15
Einstein on the Beach
Philip Glass · 1978 Spin it Again - Philip Glass wrote an opera about a man who played the violin (badly) and never let him sing a word.
genre:Contemporary Classical
Jun 15
Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich · 1978 Spin it Again - This is what it sounds like when eighteen people decide to breathe together, and the room becomes the instrument.
genre:Contemporary Classical
Jun 14
Officium
Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble · 1994 Spin it Again - Gregorian chant meets free jazz saxophone inside a stone monastery. It should not work. It still does.
genre:Jazz
Jun 5
A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Toru Takemitsu · 1977 Spin it Again - Takemitsu dreamed a garden with five sides and wrote the quietest masterpiece of the 1970s.
genre:Avant-Garde
Jun 5
Six Japanese Gardens
Kaija Saariaho · 2011 Spin it Again - This Finnish composer treats the percussionist as a watercolorist and the room as the canvas. The result is six miniatures that feel larger than any symphony.
decade:2010s