David Lang's "evening morning day" boiled creation down to a ritualistic stepwise tally of its components, intoned first in unison, then in staggered echoes.
Philip Glass was a more decisive influence here: often Mr. Utley would begin a section with a short repeating phrase, with other guitarists joining, first in unison and then with lines of harmonic or rhythmic counterpoint.
Those patterns form a bone structure for "Authority Melts From Me," which began and ended with syncopated lines played by Mr. Avey and the guitarist Ben Monder, first in unison and then in a tangle.
He was an American graduate student in London who was appalled by the way employers treated foreign workers and devoted his time to helping them, first in Unison and then in the new union Now he must help save their jobs.
Several other unions are also opposed, including the UK's second biggest – Unison.
Two-thirds of Unison's presidential team are female, as they are every year, because of rules steered through by Dave Prentis, when he was deputy general secretary at the time of the union's creation.
Two-thirds of Unison members, which include nurses, healthcare assistants and porters, said they were prepared to take action.
The result of the strike ballot was announced last week, with more than two-thirds of Unison members saying they were prepared to take action.
