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Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers.
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- 1964–present
Apr 12, 2024 · Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) is an American composer of innovative instrumental, vocal, and operatic music. Glass studied flute as a boy and enrolled at age 15 at the University of Chicago, where he studied mathematics and philosophy and graduated in 1956.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Birth date: January 31, 1937. Birth State: Maryland. Birth City: Baltimore. Birth Country: United States. Gender: Male. Best Known For: Philip Glass is an Oscar-nominated avant-garde composer...
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Indeed, Glass is the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music – simultaneously. He was born in 1937 and grew up in Baltimore. He studied at the University of Chicago, the Juilliard School and in Aspen with Darius Milhaud.
ARTS & CULTURE. Meet Phillip Glass. From opera halls to neighborhood movie theaters, Philip Glass attracts an enormous audience many of whom have never listened to classical music. Harry...
Guides. The Story Of Philip Glass. Philip Glass is one of the great creative originals of the modern age. He emerged in the 1960s at a time when contemporary classical music, spearheaded by those infamous “bad boys” Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez, had reached unparalleled levels of intellectual inscrutability.
Apr 6, 2015 · Although Glass studied at the Peabody Conservatory of music as a child, was a Juilliard graduate, and studied in Paris with renowned teacher Nadia Boulanger, his music was initially shunned by...
