Serious Fun with Opera: Akhnaten and American Minimalism with Prof. Robert Fink (UCLA)

In this episode of “Serious Fun With Opera,” a “Behind the Curtain” miniseries, Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano chats with UCLA musicologist Prof. Bob Fink about musical minimalism–a term that “Philip Glass would not answer to,” he says, but that is a “quintessentially American form.” They discuss the concepts of trance, aural wallpaper, and the sublime, all swirling around Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten’, coming up on the LA Opera stage. Get your tickets now at LAOpera.org.