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Minimalism department of mathematics brown university. Glass describes himself as a composer of music with repetitive structures, which he has helped evolve. It includes both solo piano and ensemble pieces, and it was one of his few albums not intended for theatrical performance. Only instead of saties lyricaltoantic jumps, glass. He studied at the university of chicago, the juilliard school, in aspen with darius milhaud and later with the legendary pedagogue nadia boulanger and worked closely with the sitar virtuoso and composer ravi shankar.
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