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Benjamin Geer (benjamingeer@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 01:06:39 JST Benjamin Geer
@bennomatic @AnnaAnthro @futurebird @gregeganSF While we’re on the subject of Philip Glass anecdotes, I’ve always liked this one https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/nov/24/arts.highereducation1
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1. Throughout this period, Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. "I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo," he says. "While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. 'But you're Philip Glass! What are you doing here?' It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. 'But you are an artist,' he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish."
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  from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnomahony
  
  The son of Jewish immigrants, he worked as a plumber and New York cab driver to fund his music studies. Now one of the most influential - and controversial - contemporary composers, he is seen as the founding father of minimalism. John O'Mahony reports
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