For more than 40 years, Philip Glass has created music -- and controversy. The iconic composer talks abour his career and a 10-CD retrospective. And: guitarist Tom Morello knows a thing or two about controversy. He rocked this summer's Democratic and Republican national conventions with his band Rage Against the Machine and as a solo artist. He plays live in our studio.
Heart of Glass
Philip Glass has been making music for more than 40 years and he is one of the country’s best-known living composers. He has done operas, symphonies, and film scores, like those for "The Hours" and "The Truman Show," and has still managed to remain controversial. Glass joins us in light ...
Tom Morello, Still Raging
As the baseball-capped powerhouse behind Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, Tom Morello is one of today’s most dynamic -- and most creative -- rock guitarists. In 2007, he launched a solo acoustic project called The Nightwatchman. But this summer, he popped up in the videogame “Guitar Hero III” and ...
Philip Glass: The Perennial Lighting Rod
The French have this great saying, entre chien et loup. Literally, “between a dog and a wolf,” but of course it’s much more poetic than that – it is used to describe that time of day when the light is fading ...