Philip Glass gets the South Park Treatment

I'm annoyed I missed this episode of South Park – by 13 years as it turns out. It is about a non-denominational school Christmas play called "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", which turns into an avant garde ballet when Glass is drafted in to write the music. Classic.

New Album from Amy Dickson

If you haven’t yet heard of classical saxophonist Amy Dickson, you’re about to, and in a big way. She is on the front cover of at least one leading music magazine next month, and her new album has been singled out as an ‘Editor’s Choice’ in another. On it, she plays the Philip Glass Violin Concerto, a movement of John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil and Michael Nyman’s Where The Bee Dances, the first two works in her own transcriptions. I met Amy last week to discuss the project. Read the interview here.