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Philip Glass (Baltimore, 31 januari 1937) is een Amerikaans componist. Zijn muziek valt onder Minimal music, hoewel hij zelf de term theatermuziek gebruikt.

Solo Piano (1989) is an album of piano music composed and performed by Philip Glass. It was produced by Kurt Munkacsi.

Its second track, "Metamorphosis Two", formed the basis of one of the main musical themes in the film The Hours. It is also the song that the American rock band Pearl Jam uses as their introduction music to concerts. "Metamorphosis Five" is played in an episode of Battlestar Galactica by Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, who claims it is her father playing.

The title of five of the seven tracks, "Metamorphosis", refers to and was inspired by the 1915 short story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

The title of the last composition is a reference to Allen Ginsberg's poem Wichita Vortex Sutra, and was composed, in collaboration with Ginsberg, for both a reading and recording of the poem.

Tracklist:
01 - Metamorphosis One
02 - Metamorphosis Two
03 - Metamorphosis Three
04 - Metamorphosis Four
05 - Metamorphosis Five
06 - Mad Rush
07 - Wichita Sutra Vortex