Sunday, January 19, 2020

All-Weather Philip Glass



Best comment under the video (no idea if it's apocryphal):

David Null:

An art critic for Time magazine returned to his apartment in New York City to find a man in his kitchen: Reviewer: "You're Philip Glass, What are you doing in my kitchen?" Philip Glass: "I'm installing the dishwasher you ordered" - Glass was a plumber and Taxi driver in the 1970s. “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.” “Even after the premiere of his opera Einstein at the Beach at the Met in 1976, the 39-year-old Glass went back to driving a cab. He kept at it for the next three years.”

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