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Posted on 31/05/07

Poet under Glass

Philip Glass was looking for a balloon in a park in New York. He was trying to placate one of his young children, whose balloon had gone missing, and his search for something that floats on the breeze and maybe hides behind a bush didn't seem out of keeping with a cellphone conversation we were having about Glass's latest project: to find new music for the poetry of Leonard Cohen.

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