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Philip Glass' 'Einstein' is opera because 'that's where the stuff was' by Mark Swed

As Los Angeles Opera prepares to present 'Einstein on the Beach,' composer Philip Glass discusses the 37-year-old work's creation.NEW YORK — What opera launched a legendarily prolific opera career, influenced a generation of opera composers and is an American opera classic, yet is not an opera and has only been mounted a handful of times in the 37 years since its premiere? That's an easy riddle. It's "Einstein …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM on October 5, 2013

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