Philip Glass doesn’t get much attention these days. Time was when his music was anticipated with excitement or hostility. Now it is largely ignored. “Except by the general public, which still sort of likes his music, and by professional beat critics, who routinely dismiss the new works as inherently simplistic or, less often, as tedious recyclings of earlier tricks. His music, outwardly similar to what came before, has declined in quality, and that decline can be described. – New Republic