Philip Glass
- Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
- Birthday: January 31, 1937
Celebrated avant-garde composer Philip Glass carved out a significant niche for himself with innovative and bold orchestrations that won him an international reputation and cult following as the most recognized practitioner of minimalism. ROLLING STONE magazine has called the creator of the ground-breaking operatic classic "Einstein on the Beach" (1976) the most important living composer, and though many have dismissed his work as repetitive, he has effectively employed his hypnotic recycled arpeggios, staggered pacing and oft-glacial chord mov…more