A relatively concise account of Sunday’s final performances of the Tune-In Music Festival, celebrating Philip Glass’s 75th birthday. The best line I didn’t quote belonged to Vijay Iyer, referring to his Tirtha bandmate Prasanna as being based “partly in Chennai, partly in Boston and partly in business class.”
NPR Music has just posted a mind-blowing playlist of 78 vintage 78rpm world-music shellac discs, lovingly curated by seasoned crate-digger, restorer and compiler Ian Nagoski. It might be the single coolest thing in the history of National Public Radio. (I’m exaggerating only slightly.)
