Even if you haven't heard the name Philip Glass, you've undoubtedly listened to his music while watching Fantastic Four, Cassandra's Dream, The Illusionist, Taking Lives, Secret Window, The Hours , “The Truman Show”, “Kundun”, as well as “Elena” and “Leviathan” by Andrei Zvyagintsev. In the book written for his eightieth birthday, the largest American minimalist composer is the creator of experimental portrait operas “Einstein on the Beach”, “Satyagraha” (on Mahatma Gandhi), Akhenaten, Galileo Galilei, Kepler, co-author Ravi Shankar, a reformer of postmodern symphonic language who influenced David Bowie and Brian Eno, looks back on his life and sees it as stretched out in time and space “place of music”, where you can return, like to Baltimore or India, and “think music” there. Because Philip Glass’s music is his thought and word, this is the modality in which his consciousness, imagination and memory work. Second edition.