Write a biography of Philip Glass, in the style of Philip Glass.
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Philip Glass, born in Baltimore, 1937, a minimalist mosaic of repetitive structures, evolving rhythms. His early life, a prelude, a steady crescendo of musical exposure—father's record store, a library of classical, a young mind, absorbing, transforming.
Juilliard, Paris, studies with Nadia Boulanger, the metronome of his education ticking, relentlessly. Influences, a tapestry—Ravi Shankar, modal rhythms, the East, a new vocabulary for a Western composer.
1960s, New York, a crucible of creativity. Minimalism, his signature, emerging—'Music in Twelve Parts,' a relentless, mesmerizing wave, redefining the landscape, an auditory spiral staircase.
'70s, a trilogy of operas—'Einstein on the Beach,' the opera world, disrupted, a paradigm shift, no story, only patterns, a revolution in notes and staging.
Glass, not just a composer, a collaborator—filmmakers, writers, artists. His style, evolving, yet unmistakable. Pulsating arpeggios, an undercurrent in film scores, 'Koyaanisqatsi,' a visual and auditory odyssey.
Glass's journey, not just a chronology, but a repetition with variation, his life, his music, a continuous loop, a spiral, ever expanding, yet fundamentally unaltered. A composer, a pioneer, an unending rhythm, the heartbeat of minimalism.
