A guide to Philip Glass's music

Some of his later music makes my toes curl, but there's no denying the huge importance of Glass's compositions with their unique combination of experimentalism and listener-friendlinessI'm trying, I really am. But I can't hear anything in Philip Glass's symphonies – and there are now a mighty 10 of them at the time of writing – apart from windily grandiose bombast, mind-numbing note-spinning, and time-filling composing-by-numbers. Many of you will no doubt violently disagree with me, since t...

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