Philip Glass

So I get that.

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plumber.

Yeah, Philip Glass was a plumber.

That's right.

Well, there's a very famous story about Philip Glass, which I'm sure you know, which was that when the work that probably made him famous, Einstein on the Beach, was premiering in New York.

There was this woman who was going to see it.

He made it an artful horror film.

And he brought Philip Glass.

Well, which I was about to say, I mean, talking of hypnotic, Philip Glass' score for this, in his own words, has become a classic.

And he still makes money from that score.

He gets a check for it every year.

They make dance like no one else in the world.

On the middle weekend, we're really celebrating Philip Glass, so an incredible composer on his 90th birthday.

He's written... 20 different short piano pieces and we're bringing 10 pianists from around the world together in adelaide on one piano to play all 20 pieces yeah wow uh for one one special night in the festival theater and i'm really excited on the final weekend we have a piece of theater from brazil uh called the brotherhood which i think is going to be the piece of theater everyone's going to be talking about for the next 10 years

How do you put them together, people coming to you, you sourcing them? Have you got an idea to be as eclectic as possible to bring a bit of the world to Adelaide? I

They make dance like no one else in the world.

On the middle weekend, we're really celebrating Philip Glass, so an incredible composer on his 90th birthday.

He's written... 20 different short piano pieces.

And we're bringing 10 pianists from around the world together in Adelaide on one piano to play all 20 pieces.

Yeah, I think if you were someone who's an established musician, you could do both.

If you're, you know, Philip Glass.

Mark Motherspoon.

But anyway, it's only a matter of time.

Boulanger? Boulanger? one of the most important music teachers in Western history.

Her students over the decades would include Leonard Bernstein, Philip Glass, and Quincy Jones.

She heard something in this Brooklyn kid that warranted her full attention and gave him three years of rigorous training.

He came home in 1924 with a European modernist toolkit and a very American mission.

Rosie Dawn Griffin, David Lieberman, Hamsa Mahadrenathan, Emma Maynard, and Hallie Necker are our contributing writers.

Our music, as ever, is by the amazing Philip Glass.

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I'm Harry Litman.

It's full of harmonic patterns itself.

When you have a brain at rest, just kind of just chilling out, it's a bit like a Philip Glass nice little repetitive sound.

When you are in the midst of a burst of creativity or you've taken a psychedelic drug or whatever, it transforms into a Miles Davis improv jazz session, which he found, yeah, the brain operates as an orchestra.

And those... patterns in the brain can be described by Turing's very same mathematical equation.