Oeuvre: Symphonie no. 9

A mixed evening at Cadogan Hall, with Philip Glass' Ninth Symphony emerging much more strongly than some stodgy Beethoven. 

As Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 9 ground to a halt last Thursday night, cellos and basses trailing off into silence, a few things came into focus. First, there was no missing the irony that Philip Glass, once among the outsiders of the musical world, should nearly a half century later find himself one of the American school of composition's most revered composers; perhaps its dean.