(born 1937) Composer. Grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants, trained in New York City, NY (Julliard) and Paris while also influenced by South Asian and Arab music. Glass combines a certain minimalism with mysticism in musical events like his opera Einstein on the Beach (1976, with Robert Wilson). His music became familiar to a wide audience from the intense repeated score of the ecological polemic Koyaanisqatsi (1982).