{"id":2977,"date":"2011-09-18T14:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T14:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2011\/09\/facades\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T14:57:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T14:57:58","slug":"facades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/facades\/","title":{"rendered":"Facades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b014gjw5\">Feedback<\/a> on Radio 4 very entertaining.<br \/>\nA correspondent had written in to complain about the use of a particular piece of incidental music in several different drama and documentary series on Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra across a single evening.<br \/>\nThat piece of music in Facades by Philip Glass&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qxt1xv6FKpw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nNow here&#8217;s the thing. I first became aware of it when I heard it used as the theme music for Nick Fisher&#8217;s excellent series of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julie_Enfield_Investigates\">Julie Enfield<\/a> mysteries (one of which is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00dn9jp\">repeated right now<\/a> on Radio 4 Extra &#8211; the Feedback correspondent didn&#8217;t mention that one).<br \/>\nAt the time &#8211; and this was the mid-nineties &#8211; short of knowing someone at the BBC, there was little way of finding out what the music was. I assumed that it was composed especially for the series. The Radio Times wasn&#8217;t a great deal of use either.<br \/>\nKids &#8211; we didn&#8217;t use to have Shazam!<br \/>\nThen one day I heard it used as the bed of a report on Newsnight. I phoned the BBC helpline (not that one), but the nice lady only had more common requests. Eventually I did manage to email someone at Newsnight and a production assistant told me! It was by Philip Glass and called Facades.<br \/>\nNow all I had to do was track it down. I found it in the classical section of the Virgin Megastore near Tottenham Court Road station. It was on a recent compilation album called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Minimalist-London-Chamber-Orchestra-Warren-Green\/dp\/B000002SRY\">Minimalist<\/a> (now sadly unavailable &#8211; at least on Amazon. However there&#8217;s a decent Glass compilation that includes it called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0000262D6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=friday05-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=B0000262D6\">The Essential Philip Glass<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B0000262D6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>).<br \/>\nThe Julie Enfield series ran for a few more series, and I&#8217;d discovered not only a new piece of music, but a new type of music.<br \/>\nIncidentally, what&#8217;s Nick Fisher writing for radio &#8211; if at all &#8211; these days? Is he the same Nick Fisher who was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b014f1cq\">Saturday Live<\/a> last week? And I&#8217;d love to track down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suttonelms.org.uk\/NF.HTML\">The Wheel of Fortune<\/a> that was broadcast in 2001 simultaneously on Radio 3 and Radio 4 over two nights, with listeners choosing which version they heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this week&#8217;s Feedback on Radio 4 very entertaining. A correspondent had written in to complain about the use of a particular piece of incidental music in several different drama and documentary series on Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra across a single evening. That piece of music in Facades by Philip Glass&#8230; Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}