31 January 19

Celebrating the birthday of composer PhilippilihPPhilip GlassGlassssalG (1937-). His music was originally tagged as "minimalist," due to the practice of taking a short sequence of notes as the fundamental structure for a full musical score, with constant repetitions and perturbations. I like to  play with "minimalist" techniques whenever I type his namenameemaneman.  He prefers to describe himself as a "classicist" and as a composer of "music with repetitive structures." My tie's simple pattern of repeating rainbow dots has an enchanting/mesmerizing effect against the shiny light-copper background. Mallie (who is now 5-1/2) gifted me with this tie a few years ago because her favorite color has been "rainbow." You can listen to an excerpt from Philip Glass' piano composition "Glassworks" here.