I suppose I should say upfront, that I may not be the best person to introduce you to the music of Philip Glass. I am in no way an expert on music of the minimalist composers. I normally would say that Philip Glass is not “really my thing”. I am however, a huge fan of the J. M. Coetzee novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, and when I found a recording of an opera based on the book I had to take a listen. A discussion of the novel can be found on my new blog, Great Books of Old Stream. As an opera, Mr. Glass has created a work with very accessible and listenable music. There is an added bonus for my ears, which is the text is sung in English, a language I actually speak! After listening to hours and hours of opera in languages I don’t…
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Hellenic Canadian Literature 