By Malika Rao
NEW YORK — This year marks the 75th birthday of Philip Glass, the greatest composer ever to inspire a knock-knock joke. As someone whoheard Glass speak this spring, I can assure anyone who hasn’t glimpsed him during this blitz-y 12 month period that age is just a number. Glass doesn’t ever seem to want to just stay in and watch a movie, as evidenced by what has to be the busiest septuagenarian Facebook page of all time (as I recall, he said something at the talk about how he’s not doing anything different, everyone’s just suddenly clued in because he happens to be turning a special number this year).
Which is probably why the famously smart people at NPR decided to give Glass the birthday gift of more work. In honor of today, NPR Music commissioned a choral arrangement of “The New Rule,” from Glass’ 1997 opera “Monsters of Grace.”
(Ed note: a video of the performace is at the URL listed below.)
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