Who is Philip Glass?

Philip Glass - together with Steve Reich, Terry Riley and La Monte Young led at the age of 60. He was born in Baltimor in 1937. His first compositions were written when he was 12, and he entered the University of Chicago at the age of 15, won the title in 1956 in 1956. He experimented with a 12-unit composition, but gave up when he graduated and left to take the courses on Juilliard School.

After earning a tuition that worked as a crane operator in a steel society, he returned to Juilliard to sign up, accepted a diploma consisting of 1959 and Masters in 1961, studied with Bergsma and Perischett, and then attended Milhaud's summer in Aspen. During his time in Juilliard, he experimented with a wide range of musical genres, scored music for dance and studied film scoring and created the basis for a wide range of his later work.

Glass has received Ford Foundation Grant, andThen Fulbright, who allowed him to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris for two years. While he was in Paris, he was hired to describe some of the music of the Sitar player Ravi Shankar and Indian music became an important influence for him. Before returning to New York in 1967, Glass traveled in North Africa and India, and after returning to New York, they started playing in the ensembles of others and analyzing the work of the other.

When Glass developed his musical style, he also founded Philip Glass, for which he wrote most of his work and who were the only artists of most of his work. His work in minimalism reached its peak and his later style, called "Maximalism" debuted with his opera Einstein on the beach in 1976, which was primarily focused on music for dance, film and theater, unlike a concert performance.

his 1980 Opera Satyagraha , About Gandhi and 1984 Opera Achane Hamburger Hill and The Truman Show , as well Between them, and between them, and images, between them, and between them. Other collaborators include Allen Ginsberg, Paul Simon and Ravi Shankar.