PHILLIP GLASS

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PHILLIP GLASS
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• American composer, born January 31, 1937 in
  Baltimore , Maryland.

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He is one of the highest profile composers
writing "classical" music today, often said to be
one of the most influential composers of the late
20th century. His music is also described as
minimalist, but he describing himself instead as
a composer of "music with repetitive structures
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• Ravi Shankar added important influence on Glass's
  musical thinking. His distinctive style arose
  from his work with Shankar and their perception
  of rhythm in Indian music as being entirely
  additive.

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• His music accomponied the Olympic Games in Los
  Angeles in 1984.

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• In 1964, Glass received a Fulbright Scholarship
  and went to Paris, where he studied with the
  eminent composition teacher Nadia Boulanger from
  autumn of 1964 to summer of 1966. Glass's years
  in Paris as a student made a lasting impression
  and influenced his work ever since, as the
  composer admitted in 1979 "The composers I
  studied with Boulanger are the people I still
  think about mostBach and Mozart(Nadia Boulanger
  ja Astor Piazzolla)

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• Currently, he describes himself as a
  "Classicist", pointing out that he is trained in
  harmony and counterpoint and studied such
  composers as Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian
  Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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• Besides writing for the concert hall, Glass
  continued his creativity with adaptions from
  literary texts
• In the Penal Colony (2000, after the novella by
  Franz Kafka)

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• He has written operas, musical theatre works, ten
  symphonies, eleven concertos, solo works, chamber
  music and film scores. Three of his film scores
  have been nominated for Academy Awards.

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• Glass's most recent film scores include No
  Reservations

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• The Illusionist

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• Cassandra's Dream

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• Candyman

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• The hours (2002) earned him a second Academy
  Award nomination

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• Taking Lives, Secret Window

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• For the question What kind of music everyone
  should try to listen?
•  Philip Glass asked
• Music of their own heart.

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• Thank you for your attention!

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Music

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