Today is Philip Glass‘ 80th birthday. We salute him at The Allen Ginsberg Project
See our last year’s Philip Glass weekend here and here
and our recent transcription of Studs Terkel‘s interview with him and Allen here and here
See our previous birthday celebrations here, here and here
He was interviewed last week by Fiona Maddocks in The Guardian – here
NPR has been celebrating with a Philip Glass week – appreciations by Errol Morris, Nico Muhly, David Lang, Paul Simon and Laurie Anderson can be accessed here
Tonight he’ll be at Carnegie Hall, attending the premiere of his 11th Symphony. In conversation with William Robin in the New York Times
WR: Are you slowing down at all as you reach 80?
PG: I have a lot more to write. I don”t know how many more years I get to write it, but I have a lot to do
Thank u!