"Im the meantime, however, commercial success was still far off. Not only were (Philip) Glass and (Steve) Reich the sole employees of Chelsea Ligth Moving, but Glasss also worked as a plumber. Later he described a day when he went 'to install a dishwater in a loft in Soho. while working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in desbelief. "But you are Phillip Glass! What are you doing here?" It was obvious that I was installing his dishwater, and I told him I soon would be finished (I always benn careful about deadlines.) "But you are an artist," he protested. "I won't permit you to work on my dishwater"'" (en Minimalists de Robert Schwarz).

(Imagen, Retrato de Philip Glass por Chuck Close, con Chuck Close).

El plomero alumno de Nadia Boulanger (...también fue maletero de aviones)