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Legendary composer Philip Glass joins Occupy Wall Street after the final performance of his Satyragraha at the Metropolitan Opera, using the human microphone to read the libretto of this opera about Gandhi’s activism in South Africa. MacArthur Fellow and New Yorker music critic Alex Ross reports, including the winning sentence “he’s partly blocked by Lou Reed’s head.”

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