Philip Glass

Philip Glass is 70 this week.  I like his music, just in the way I like Gertrude Stein.  It's repetitive.  In conjunction with an appearance of the ensemble locally, I had a phone interview with him.  I tried to pin him down on some of the weaker aspects of his work, his score for "Mishima," for example.  He was having none of it.  He likes his own music and he listens to his own music.  Good for him.  Happy birthday.