Bryan (a.k.a. Bryrock) has just created a hubpage on Philip Glass.
Philip Glass, in his own words, is an American composer of "music with repetitive structures." Often referred to as a Minimalist, he first emerged from the Minimalism movement in the 1960s and remains as one of its most noteworthy American contributors, but Glass has never liked the term and disassociates from it. While his music still reveals some minimalist influences and structural attributes from those earlier times, it has long since flourished and evolved into his own brand of contemporary classical music.
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