Philip Glass's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. The birth-card coordinate for January 31 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Philip Glass's 2018 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

• 2018 Kennedy Center Honors — Philip Glass

Philip Glass is on the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Philip Glass (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Philip Glass (Q189729, Wikipedia “Philip Glass”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Philip Glass is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Philip Glass: 2018 Philip Glass. Philip Glass's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1937-01-31 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Philip Glass, verified against Wikidata P569 1937-01-31 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Philip Glass is not_published. The harvested card symbol for January 31 is 9♣. No day-precision Wikidata P570 death date is stored on this page for Philip Glass. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass is the Wikipedia article used for Philip Glass. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Philip Glass. It only names the calendar coordinate for January 31 and the Honors years already listed for Philip Glass.

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Philip Glass was born January 31, 1937 (1937-01-31). Month 1 and day 31 give solar value 22, which is the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1937 is unused, so Philip Glass's 1937 birth year does not move the card. The 9 of Clubs does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Philip Glass. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Clubs, not a biography of Philip Glass: You keep the large view without skipping the next practical step. Your thoughts are about humanity, progress, and possibility. You think in big pictures and universal principles. Your mind is oriented toward uplift. Harvested gifts listed for the 9 of Clubs: Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective; Ability to inspire others toward possibility; Universal principles and humanitarian ideals; Natural optimism about human potential. Harvested life-direction line for the 9 of Clubs: Your curriculum is learning that ideals only matter if they're implemented. You're learning to get your hands dirty, to do the unglamorous work.

Live 9 of Clubs meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Philip Morris Glass is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. He described himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped to evolve stylistically.

Philip Glass in the public record

He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. He described himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped to evolve stylistically. Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1968. He has written 15 operas, numerous chamber operas and musical theatre works, 15 symphonies, 12 concertos, nine string quartets, various other chamber music pieces, and many film scores. He has received nominations for four Grammy Awards, including two for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Satyagraha (1987) and String Quartet No. 2 (1988). He has received three Academy Award for Best Original Score nominations for Martin Scorsese's Kundun (1997), Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2002), and Richard Eyre's Notes on a Scandal (2006).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Philip Glass (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 9♣, 6♦, Q♥, 4♣, 6♥, 5♣, 9♠, 2♥, K♥, K♦, 2♦, J♠, 8♣, 4♠, 10♥, 10♦, 8♠, A♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an honor.

Also on the record

1. He also composed the scores for Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Hamburger Hill (1987), The Thin Blue Line (1988), Candyman (1992), The Truman Show (1998), and The Illusionist (2006).
2. Glass is known for composing the operas Einstein on the Beach (1976), Satyagraha (1980), Akhnaten (1983), The Voyage (1992), and The Perfect American (2013).
3. He also wrote the scores for Broadway productions such as the revivals of The Elephant Man (2002), The Crucible (2016), and King Lear (2019).
4. For the last he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play.

Other honorees with this card

• Al Pacino — 2016 Kennedy Center Honors
• Arthur Mitchell — 1993 Kennedy Center Honors
• Ella Fitzgerald — 1979 Kennedy Center Honors
• Harold Nicholas — 1991 Kennedy Center Honors
• Jessye Norman — 1997 Kennedy Center Honors
• Kirk Douglas — 1994 Kennedy Center Honors
• Mstislav Rostropovich — 1992 Kennedy Center Honors
• Paul Simon — 2002 Kennedy Center Honors
• Robert De Niro — 2009 Kennedy Center Honors
• Roy Acuff — 1991 Kennedy Center Honors

FAQ

What is Philip Glass's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. January 31 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Philip Glass's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Kennedy Center Honor?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Philip Glass's dates and Honors credits come from?

Birth date 1937-01-31 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Philip Glass, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia Kennedy Center Honors roster, which cites Kennedy Center pages. The Honors line is 2018 Kennedy Center Honors. Kennedy Center artist-bio date status is not_published. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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