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Article: Philip Glass
- Article from:
- Opera News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Philip Glass's music comprised much of the soundtrack to my childhood. Growing up in the early 1980s, my generation witnessed the cultural mainstream's gradual embrace of Glass's aesthetic - in the form of everything from Pepsi commercials and knock-knock jokes to the scoring of Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy - as a kind of reception of the future of music. I have vivid early memories of sitting stock still in the family room of my parents' house, utterly transfixed by a Sesame Street segment called "Geometry of a Circle." The clip featured an ensemble of singers and an arpeggiating electric-organ performing Glass's vaguely unsettling motifs over an evolving series of animated geometric ...
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