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Philip Glass - Composer
Philip Glass is one of the most influential and polarising composers of the last 50 years.
The trademark sound in his prolific output of symphonies, operas and film scores, is repetitive, rhythmic and hypnotic.
He has been driven by a simple question - what is music?
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