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The Essay Five Seismic Moments in New Music Episodes

    Tom Service - Where Have All the Seismic Moments Gone?

    5/5 Tom Service reflects on the lack of any seismic shocks in 21st-century music.

    Sarah Walker on Steve Reich's Four Organs

    4/5 Sarah Walker reflects on Steve Reich's radically minimalist Four Organs.

    Ivan Hewett on Brian Eno's Music for Airports

    3/5 Ivan Hewett reflects on Brian Eno's creation of a new genre, which he named ambient music.

    Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    2/5 Sara Mohr-Pietsch on the appetite in the west for eastern European music after 1989.

    Robert Worby on John Cage's 4'33"

    1/5 Robert Worby reflects on the first performance of John Cage's 4'33".