On today’s show: Fred Guterl, executive editor of Scientific American, argues that the earth is experiencing another mass extinction event and discusses how we can survive it. We’ll look at ways you can help keep your brain in shape. Leanne Shapton discusses how her life-long love of swimming has helped influence her art. And John Dramani Mahama, Vice President of Ghana, talks about his life, career, country, and his new memoir, My First Coup d’Etat.
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Philip Glass’s piano works have had a longstanding and widespread influence – on the so-called Post-minimalist composers, but also on musicians working in the electronic dance world. One of them is Francesco Tristano, who brings electronica’s repeating motifs back to the piano in his solo piece “The Melody.” We’ll hear that, as well as several of William Duckworth’s “Time Curve Preludes,” often considered the first major Post-minimalist work, and a work from the late Canadian composer Ann Southam directly inspired by Glass’s piano works.
