Lights Out, Music On: Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells in Full

Dim the lights and let the music fill the room. This listening session plays Mike Oldfield's classic progressive rock album Tubular Bells from start to finish, in a near-dark space built for focused, uninterrupted listening.

In an age of shuffle and skip, the evening is a chance to slow down and hear an album the way its maker intended, with the tracks in their original order. The library's facilitators, Claus and Pia, chose the record, which first came out in 1973 and remains one of the most iconic works in progressive rock more than fifty years later.