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Philip Glass: The Bowie Symphonies, Royal Festival Hall, London
David Bowie’s music is brought hauntingly to life by the master of minimalism
For all time: Philip Glass
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MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones
JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system
MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star
MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
IN SPITE of their strikingly different styles in music as well as life, Philip Glass and David Bowie were nevertheless well acquainted creatively.
Glass began to turn his prodigious talents in the direction of Bowie’s work back in 1992, when he composed Symphony No. 1 (Low), drawing on Bowie’s album 1977 album of the same name, which the US composer described as a “work of genius.”
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