Third Coast Percussion's new album, Perspectives, is the group's most accessible. Saverio Truglia/Courtesy of the artists hide caption
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Top row, left to right: Teyana Taylor, Run The Jewels; Bottom row, left to right: Phoebe Bridgers, Sault, This Is The Kit Courtesy of the artists hide caption
Jeremy Denk's c.1300-c.2000 comes out Feb. 8 on Nonesuch. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The Kennedy Center Honors ceremony in 2016. It was the last time a U.S. president — Barack Obama — attended the awards ceremony. Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Anthony Roth Costanzo takes opera to unlikely places, including NPR Music's Tiny Desk. Morgan Noelle Smith/NPR hide caption
The exterior of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Simone Dinnerstein and Philip Glass. Richard Guérin/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Third Coast Percussion's new album, out Feb. 9, is called Paddle to the Sea. Saverio Truglia hide caption
Bang A Gong: Third Coast Percussion Plays Philip Glass
Víkingur Ólafsson's album was a fitting tribute to the 80th birthday of composer Philip Glass. Ari Magg/Deutsche Grammophon hide caption
Devonté Hynes and Philip Glass met in Hynes' Chinatown loft for a conversation on a rainy spring day. Mito Habe-Evans/NPR hide caption
After meeting in the artistic SoHo loft scene in the early 1970s, Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass have been frequent collaborators. Susana Gonzalez/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Laurie Anderson finds a "calm center" in Etude 10 by Philip Glass. Brendon Thorne/Getty Images hide caption
Laurie Anderson Finds 'New Ways To Breathe' In A Philip Glass Etude
Paul Simon collaborated with Philip Glass on the album Songs from Liquid Days. New York Daily News via Getty Images hide caption
Composer David Lang recalls his epiphanous moment when he first heard Satyagraha by Philip Glass. Peter Serling/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
As a teenager, composer Nico Muhly listened to Philip Glass' Music in 12 Parts as his New York soundtrack. Ana Cuba/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Director Errol Morris first collaborated with composer Philip Glass on the 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line. Carlo Allegri/Getty Images hide caption
Soloman Howard performs as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton's Appomattox. Scott Suchman for WNO hide caption
Pianist Bruce Brubaker has been playing Philip Glass' music for more than 20 years. Timothy Saccenti hide caption
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Philip Glass photographed in New York City in 1980. Jack Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption
"I'm more and more coming to the idea," composer Philip Glass says, "that it's the lineage and the connection to the past and the connection to the future — that is the real connection." Eamonn McCabe/Redferns hide caption
