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'When You Gonna Get A Real Job?': Philip Glass And Devonté Hynes Compare Notes

Watch the two musicians, nearly 50 years apart in age, talk about the pains of striking out on your own, the pulse of New York, and the role of the artist today. Plus about a hundred other ideas.
Devonté Hynes and Philip Glass met in Hynes' Chinatown loft for a conversation on a rainy spring day.

At first glance, DevontĂŠ Hynes and might appear like musical opposites. Hynes, the 31-year-old British producer and songwriter who performs under the name , makes hit records with and . Glass, the 80-year-old Baltimore-born New Yorker who writes operas and film scores, is

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