KEVIN DONNELLY suggests that the task of transforming cultural spaces is far from over and that photography still has a key role to play
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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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CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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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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