The Rest Is Noise festival
An evening of British-composed orchestral music from the 90s marked a resounding success for the Rest Is Noise festival, writes Martin Kettle
The Rest Is Noise festival: New World Order
Gillian Moore: Pluralism is the defining feature of music at the end of the 20th century – from the minimalist film music of Michael Nyman to the lush sounds of Toru Takemitsu to the spectralist works that explored sound itself
Philip Glass Ensemble/Steve Reich/Colin Currie Group – review
The Rest Is Noise's weekend exploration of postwar American music showed the boldness of Philip Glass's aesthetic vision, writes Guy Dammann
Glass's Music in 12 Parts - but the audience was just as small
So few people went to hear the Philip Glass Ensemble perform in the UK in 1975 that it would have been cheaper to fly the audience to New York to hear the group there. But Christopher Fox one of that original handful, reflects how things have changed
The Rest is Noise festival: Politics and spirituality - reviews from the archive
The Rest is Noise: Superpower
More me time: The Rest Is Noise festival reaches the 70s
Sam Jordison: With a weekend of literary events focused on Thatcher-era Politics and Spirituality, there's lots to self-interest you
The Rest Is Noise Festival: Politics and Spirituality weekend preview - video
Gillian Moore introduces the next segment of The Rest Is Noise Festival, which looks at the composers behind the Iron Curtain from the 1970s and 1980s who turned to religious and spiritual values under the Soviet Regime.
The Rest Is Noise festival: late 20th century politics and spirituality
Gillian Moore: the latest chapter in the Southbank's Rest Is Noise festival looks at how the changing political and social landscape of the 1970s and 80s shaped the era's mood and music
Ian Gittins: Frank Zappa's scattergun musical satire is very much of its time but its belated rehabilitation is a cause for quiet celebration
The Rest is Noise Festival: the 60s - reviews from the archive
How the Guardian and the Observer reported on the decade when musical boundaries came down
The Rest is Noise: the 60s - in pictures
Images from a decade of revolution both inside and outside the concert hall
The Rest is Noise festival: the 60s
The Southbank Centre's Gillian Moore introduces the next chapter of their Rest is Noise festival, a decade when barricades and musical boundaries alike were being stormed
Listen to Lachenmann and Schoenberg-Nono on new music
Jason; Aurora Orchestra/Ollu, Currie, Hodges, Summers; Tamara Stefanovich – review
Cavalli's 17th-century favourite is well worth reviving. And The Rest Is Noise hits all the right notes with the 1950s, writes Fiona Maddocks
Aurora Orchestra/Ollu/Currie/Hodges – review
A mind-blowing weekend of modernist music by Stockhausen and Boulez crowns this year's Rest Is Noise festival, writes Tim Ashley
Electronic music's sound of futures past
Music in the post-war world
The Rest is Noise festival: Post-war world
In Western Europe, the second world war had provoked a crisis in classical music. The latest chapter in the Southbank's Rest is Noise festival looks at how composers - Stockhausen, Boulez et al - responded
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