THE VIDEO SHELF · philip glass sesame street
Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
A Sesame Street animation from 1979 with music composed by Philip Glass, showing geometric circle patterns.
Why HN readers recommended it
Mentioned as an example of Sesame Street respecting children's intelligence and as an early gateway to modern classical music.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- SamCam2011
- Topic
- philip glass sesame street
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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.
SavantIdiot on Hacker News · 2021-05
In 'Sesame Street': from radical experiment to beloved TV mainstaySesame 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 …
krapp on Hacker News · 2018-10
In Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.