{"id":828,"date":"2011-08-24T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/08\/the-roots-of-philip-glass.html"},"modified":"2011-08-24T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:24:00","slug":"the-roots-of-philip-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/08\/the-roots-of-philip-glass.html","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of Philip Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE minimalist composer is the latest subject of my Influences column in the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7mt4l17kv7k\/TlVrQxpsJwI\/AAAAAAAABKg\/3YSrenQYZ1M\/s1600\/Philip_Glass_018.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7mt4l17kv7k\/TlVrQxpsJwI\/AAAAAAAABKg\/3YSrenQYZ1M\/s400\/Philip_Glass_018.jpg\" width=\"247\"><\/a>We spoke about his teacher Nadia Boulanger, sitar player Ravi Shankar, composer\/philosopher John Cage, Gandhi and Allen Ginsberg, who Glass got to know well.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned to Glass before we started to talk for real that I had a new respect for anyone who wrote music since I&#8217;d started a very amateur study of music theory. He told me it&#8217;s not hard for kids &#8212; as his nine-year-old son is showing him. &#8220;Their minds are much more agile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/08\/influences-composer-philip-glass.html\">HERE<\/a> is the full piece.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be at the Hollywood Bowl next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE minimalist composer is the latest subject of my Influences column in the Los Angeles Times. We spoke about his teacher Nadia Boulanger, sitar player Ravi Shankar, composer\/philosopher John Cage, Gandhi and Allen Ginsberg, who Glass got to know well. I mentioned to Glass before we started to talk for real that I had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,67,160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-hollywood-bowl","8":"category-philip-glass","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}