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By KATE TAYLOR [NY Sun, 9 April 2008]

When a chance came up to talk to Philip Glass about mounting a work of his at the English National Opera, Phelim McDermott jumped on it. Mr. McDermott — who runs, with Julian Crouch, a theater company called Improbable — was hardly an opera buff, but he was a huge fan of Mr. Glass.