Philip Glass at 90: Manchester Collective

Manchester Collective celebrates Philip Glass alongside contemporary voices, marking his continuing influence across today’s musical landscape. Southbank Centre Resident Artists Manchester Collective bring together performers, composers and collaborators in events that shift freely between classical music, new sounds and more. Here, major works from Philip Glass’ career sit alongside music by composers of today. An early movement from his First String Quartet reveals a composer testing ideas that would later define minimalism, while the Fifth Quartet shows that language fully realised, with driving rhythms and immense emotional power.