GLASS, Philip
(*1937)
GLASS, Philip (31 January 1937). Traditionally trained, not only at Juilliard but with the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Glass began as a conventional composer before creating music of distinction: a sequence of pieces that included Strung Out (1967), Music in Similar Motion (1969), Music in Contrary Motion (1969), and Music in Fifths (1969). Essentially monophonic, these compositions have lines of individual notes, with neither harmonies nor counterpoint; they are tonal without…