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Happy birthday to Philip Glass, born today in 1937, and the man behind the music in this classic Sesame Street clip.

(Reblogged from sesamestreet)
Philip Glass Today is the 75th birthday of Philip Glass, one of most influential contemporary classical composers today.  Glass, while he does not define himself as a minimalist, is often considered one of the leading figures in minimalist music. Says New York Times music critic Allan Kozin, “What Glass did was go back to the most basic tonality you could have — major keys, minor keys — and to take small segments of music and repeat them over and over, changing them slowly along the way in his early music.  He called it ‘additive process.’” Continue reading on NPR Music: Philip Glass at 75: Listening With Heart, Not Intellect Ira Glass Interviews His Cousin, Composer Philip Glass View high resolution

Philip Glass

Today is the 75th birthday of Philip Glass, one of most influential contemporary classical composers today.  Glass, while he does not define himself as a minimalist, is often considered one of the leading figures in minimalist music.

Says New York Times music critic Allan Kozin, “What Glass did was go back to the most basic tonality you could have — major keys, minor keys — and to take small segments of music and repeat them over and over, changing them slowly along the way in his early music.  He called it ‘additive process.’”

Continue reading on NPR Music:

Philip Glass at 75: Listening With Heart, Not Intellect

Ira Glass Interviews His Cousin, Composer Philip Glass