Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4

SamCam20112 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
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A Sesame Street animation from 1979 with music composed by Philip Glass, showing geometric circle patterns.

Mentioned as an example of Sesame Street respecting children's intelligence and as an early gateway to modern classical music.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@krapp2018 · in “Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years”

Sesame Street had so many great creative and musical segments before it turned into the Elmo show. It didn't talk down to children or insult their intelligence. It inspired children rather than just try to hypnotize them with colors and repetition to shut them up for an hour. [LINK] [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]

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@SavantIdiot2021 · in “'Sesame Street': from radical experiment to beloved TV mainstay”

Philip Glass scored an animation for Sesame Street. [VIDEO] I blame this for my interest in modern classical. I can't imagine them doing something so progressive today. But that's because they had a captive audience in the 70's.

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@leviathant2023 · in “If Philip Glass Were a Film”

I thought this was going to be a link to the Sesame Street animation that he scored @ [VIDEO] If I had access to this sixteen years ago, I would have recreated the animations in Flash, but after Flash died out, I stopped playing in that field.

@throw0101b2023 · in “Sesame Street – Count to 12 [video]”

Somewhat related, but their "Geometry of Circles" was written by Philip Glass: * [VIDEO] * [LINK] * [LINK]