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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: Tori Amos, Philip Glass, David Byrne, Eva Cassidy, Eubie Blake, JC Chasez, Sisqo, Mya, Ron Holloway, Toni Braxton, Eddie Bayers, BT, Mario, John Fahey, Kathleen Hanna, LaKisha Jones, John Hall, Anne Brown, Julienne Irwin, Haddaway, Benji Madden, Margaret Durante, Ric Ocasek, Chris Rice, Gary Bartz, Joel Madden, Greg Puciato, Tamar Braxton, Sam Watters, Laura Bryna, Niki Barr, Chester Thompson, Phil Ritchie, Cereal Killaz, Brian McComas, Sam Endicott, Evan Taubenfeld, Seth Hurwitz, DJ Keenan, Brandon Thomas, Ethel Ennis, Bob Lind, Paula Campbell, Carolyn Long, Sam Spiegel, Mark Gross, Tina Harris, Aaron LaCrate, Gina Schock, Greg Kihn, Jeff Antoniuk, Terry Glaze, Billy Martin, Andy Stickel, Nathan Larson, Brian Collins, Jordan Young, Neal Coty, Keith Howland, D. J. Sparr, Sagat, Doctor Dread, Albert Dailey, Tom McIntosh, Neil Fallon, Paul Thomas, Ken Navarro, Winard Harper, Patrick Kennedy, Charlie Harris, Earl Swope, Billy Mackel. Excerpt: Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (along with precursors such as Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein). Although his music is often (controversially) described as minimalist, for his later work he distances himself from this label, describing himself instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures." Though his early mature music shares much with what is normally called 'minimalist', he has since evolved stylistically. Currently, he describes himself as a "Classicist," pointing out that he is trained in harmony and counterpoint and studied such composers as Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Nadia Boulanger. Glass is a prolif...
