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Words Without Music

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by Philip Glass


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  Abramowitz, Morton, 156

  Abramowitz, Michael, 121

  Abramowitz, Sheppie Glass, 1, 3, 8, 13, 15, 18, 20, 121, 122, 156, 221, 222, 223, 393–94, 395, 396

  Acker, Kathy, 99

  Adler, Mortimer, 19

  Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow), 28

  Afghanistan, 152, 157–61

  Africa, 114, 236, 332, 334, 335–38, 340, 341, 358, 359–61

  Agra, 153

  Ahmedabad, 189

  Aïda (Verdi), 54

  Ailey, Alvin, 212

  Akalaitis, JoAnne, 109–11, 113–15, 116–20, 122, 123, 125, 146, 152, 153, 154, 156–63, 165, 167, 169, 172, 175, 177, 178, 183, 202, 203–4, 207, 208, 214, 215, 221, 234–35, 261, 262, 263, 267, 277, 278, 279, 280, 312, 338–39, 360

  Akhetaten, 316

  Akhnaten (pharaoh), 305, 316–17, 318

  Akhnaten (Glass), 33–34, 89, 156, 281, 293, 305, 314, 317–20, 369, 372

  À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Proust), 93

  Alexandria, 153, 184

  Algren, Nelson, 28–29

  Allen, Woody, 349–50

  Amritsar, 162, 163, 168

  Amsterdam, 248, 251, 305, 313, 352

  Anderson, Laurie, 342

  Andre, Carl, 226

  Anima Mundi (film), 327–28, 329

  Ann Arbor, Mich., 303, 387

  Another Look at Harmony (series; Glass), 288–89

  À Nous la Liberté (film), 37

  Arendt, Hannah, 28

  Aristotle, 19, 209

  Arizona, 101, 327

  Armstrong, Louis, 35

  Armstrong, Neil, 262

  Art Institute of Chicago, 23, 32

  Art of the Fugue, The (Bach), 95, 139

  Asia, 114, 158

  Aspen Music School, 27, 90

  Athens, 155–56

  Atkins, Mark, 341

  Australia, 153, 286, 341

  Austria, 51

  Autobiography of a Yogi (Yogananda), 106

  Avedon, Elizabeth, 342

  Avery, Milton, 78

  Avignon, 118, 294, 295, 296

  Avogadro, Amedeo, 33

  Babbitt, Milton, 228

  Bach, Johann Sebastian, 41, 42–43, 45, 86, 88, 96, 137, 138, 139, 141, 145, 259, 270, 379, 383

  Bacon, Paul, 354, 358

  Baker, Chet, 36, 80

  Balanchine, George, 284

  Balcony, The (Genet), 104

  Baltimore, Md., ix, xi, 1, 3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8–9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 34, 36, 38, 39, 45, 48, 52, 53, 56, 57, 58, 59, 68, 78, 79, 108, 110, 120, 121, 224, 256, 280, 284, 299, 306, 307, 321, 393–95

  Baltimore Zoo, 79

  Bamako, 359

  Band of Outsiders (film), 115

  Banjul, 338, 359

  Barcelona, 154, 155

  Barrault, Jean-Louis, 116

  Bartenieff, George, 206

  Bartók, Béla, 17, 18, 32, 49, 145

  Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 283

  Basie, Count, 37

  Basra, 157

  Bayreuth, 313

  Beal, John, 100

  Beatles, 130, 153, 184

  Beck, Julian, 111, 119

  Beckett, Samuel, 55–56, 104, 105, 109, 110, 111, 112–13, 116, 123, 124–26, 128, 136, 201–2, 207–8, 209–10, 211, 217, 262, 287, 291

  “Bed” (Glass), 289

  Beehive (jazz club), 23, 29, 34–35

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 17, 18, 41, 50, 88, 95, 96, 215, 259, 383

  Beigel, Orly, 194

  Belém, 331

  Bell, Charles, 32, 174, 175, 182

  Bellamy, Dick, 76–77

  Belle et la Bête, La (film), 37, 368, 372, 374–75, 378

  Belle et la Bête, La (opera; Glass), 148, 368, 374, 375–78

  Bellow, Saul, 28–29

  Benedict, Ruth, 26

  Berg, Alban, 42, 46, 47

  Bergman, Ingmar, 36, 104

  Bergsma, William, 65–66, 84

  Berio, Luciano, 58, 81

  Berlin, 116–17, 352

  Bern, 248

  Bernard, Theos, 151–52, 174, 175, 176–77

  Bernstein, Leonard, 49–50

  Berzin, Alexander, 182

  Bethlehem Steel plant, xi–xii, 58–61, 102–3, 108

  Beuys, Joseph, 249–50

  Bhagavad Gita (Hindu text), 311

  Bhave, Vinoba, 189

  Bhutan, 152, 174, 175

  Bicycle Thief, The (film), 37

  Bielawa, Lisa, 237

  Bird, Tom, 385

  Birtwhistle, Harrison, 369

  Black Keys, 342

  Blacks, The (Genet), 104

  Blake, William, 388

  Blakey, Art, 37

  Bley, Carla, 252

  Bolivia, 334

  Bombay, 153, 157, 161–62, 183–84, 340

  Boothe, Power, 208

  Bordeaux, 154

  Bosporus, 157

  Boston, Mass., 63, 93, 388

  Boudhanath, 168

  Boulanger, Lili, 143–44

  Boulanger, Nadia, 11, 42, 48, 91, 93, 107, 111, 113, 117, 118, 131, 136–45, 146–49, 191, 201, 229, 244, 270, 340, 342

  Boulez, Pierre, 58, 81, 115, 228

  Bowie, David, 342

  Bowles, Paul, 103

  Brancusi, Constantin, 112

  Brazil, 330–32, 335, 342, 358

  Brecht, Bertolt, 104, 113, 116, 117, 123, 301

  Breuer, Clove, 235

  Breuer, Lee, 111, 116, 123, 124, 204, 208, 235, 255

  Brief History of Time, A (film), 349

  Brill Building, 306–7

  Brindisi, 155

  Brook, Peter, 111, 116, 290, 291

  Brooklyn, N.Y., 273, 283, 285

  Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 283, 342

  Brookmeyer, Bob, 80

  Broonzy, Big Bill, 29, 44

  Brown, Bob, 288, 292

  Brown, Earle, 80–81

  Brown, Trisha, 211, 212, 213

  Browning, Robert, 335

  Browning, Tod, 25

  Bruckner, Anton, 49–51

  Brumbach, Linda, 39–40, 237

  Bua, Swami, 191–92

  “Building” (Glass), 253

  Burger, Neil, 349

  Burmese Days (Orwell), 170

  Burroughs, William, 103, 126, 228, 385

  Byrd Hoffman Foundation, 206, 284, 298

  Byrne, David, 342

  Café Bohemia, 37

  Cage, John, 49, 72, 80–81, 94–96, 103, 126, 189, 210–11, 212, 213, 247, 252, 284, 351

  Calcutta, 174

  Camus, Albert, 103–4

  Canada, 261, 262, 307

  Canopus in Argos: Archives (series; Lessing), 320–21

  Cantor, Eddie, 17

  Cape Breton, 55, 208, 262–68, 288, 342, 361–62, 388

  Carlson, Ann, 386

  Carmen (Bizet), 320

  Carnegie Hall, 87, 342

  Carter, Elliott, 73

  Caruso, D. J., 349

  Casa de Cultura, 196

  Cassandra’s Dream (film), 349–50

  Castelli, Leo, 227, 242, 247

  Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York), 329

  Catskills, N.Y., ix, 196, 258, 366–67

  Caucasian Chalk Circle, The (Brecht), 117

  Caux, Daniel, 115, 148

  Caux, Jacqueline, 115

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 67, 136, 344

  Central Asia, 158, 174

  Cevia (Glass’s cousin), 16

  Chaikin, Joseph, 206, 209

  Chaotic Harmony (film), 194

  Chappaqua (film), 129, 130, 131–33, 135, 385

  Cheruthuruthy, 54, 186

  Cheslock, Louis, 48–49

  Chicago, Ill., 21, 22, 23, 29, 32, 34–37, 42, 43, 44–45, 49, 50, 52, 57, 58, 59, 66, 78, 100, 102, 105, 221, 391

  Chicago, University of, ix, 9, 18, 19–20, 22, 23, 24–27, 28, 29–33, 34, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 57, 82, 109, 316, 371, 390

  Children of Violence (series;
Lessing), 320

  Childs, Ellie, 55

  Childs, Lucinda, 55, 212, 288, 292

  China, 173, 193, 341, 353

  Chinia Lama, 168–69

  Cincinnati, Ohio, 16

  Cinematheque, 213, 218, 225, 227, 239, 242, 255, 326

  City College (Baltimore), 3, 18

  CIVIL warS: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down (Glass, Byrne, and Bryars), 301

  Clair, René, 36

  Claudel, Paul, 136

  Cliburn, Van, x

  Close, Chuck, 77, 243, 245–46

  Cocío, Roberto Carillo, 196

  Cocteau, Jean, 37, 368, 369–72, 373, 374–75, 378, 379–80, 381

  Coleman, Ornette, 37, 39, 80, 129, 260, 308

  Collected Poems (Ginsberg), 386

  Collins, Karen, 52–53, 54, 55

  Cologne, 145–46, 248, 250

  Cologne (Glass), 301

  Coltrane, John, 35, 37, 41, 260

  Columbia University, 67, 100, 256, 261, 389

  Columbo, Ceylon, 153

  Columbus, Christopher, 324

  Colvin, Shawn, 342

  Come Out (Reich), 249, 250

  Company (play; Beckett), 125, 287

  “Company” (song; Glass), 125

  Concerto for Four Harpsichords (Bach), 379

  Concert of the Sixth Sun, The (album; Glass), 196

  Concord Sonata (Ives), 46–47

  Coney Island, N.Y., 100

  “Confrontation and Rescue (1896)” (Glass), 312

  Conrad, Joseph, 28–29, 349

  Cooper, Grosvenor, 42

  Cooper, Paula, 213

  Copland, Aaron, 27–28, 49, 58, 65, 66, 91

  Cotton Club, 23, 29, 37

  Coulter, Mr. (campsite owner), 262–63

  Cousteau, Jacques, 330

  Cowell, Henry, 49

  Crowell, David, 237

  Cunningham, Merce, 126, 189, 210–11, 212, 247, 284

  Cunningham, Michael, 347

  Dalai Lama, 173, 193, 341–42, 345, 362

  Dalí, Salvador, 276

  Dallapiccola, Luigi, 88

  Dalton, John, 33

  Dance (album; Glass), 358

  “Dance 1” (Glass), 289

  Dance of Death (Strindberg), 117

  Darjeeling, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175

  David-Neel, Alexandra, 151, 175

  Davies, Dennis Russell, 51, 91, 313–14, 318, 319

  Davies, Molly, 313

  Davies, Ray, 342

  Davis, Lynn, 362

  Davis, Miles, 37, 80

  Dean, Laura, 212

  Dechen Shak-Dagsay, 342

  de Groat, Andy, 292

  DeJong, Constance, 33, 315

  de Kooning, Willem, 79, 80

  de Menil, Christophe, 292

  de Menil, François, 77, 292

  Denney, Reuel, 25

  Dermithe, Edouard, 374

  de Roo, Hans, 305, 313, 315

  De Sica, Vittorio, 36

  Dessau, Paul, 104

  Dieudonné, Mademoiselle, 138, 140, 141, 142, 191, 244

  Dilley, Barbara, 212

  di Suvero, Mark, 76–77, 202–3, 305–6, 326, 354

  “Domaine Musical” concerts (Boulez), 115

  Dominican Republic, 5

  Doors, the, 228

  Dove, Arthur, 78

  Dover Garage, 274, 347

  Dracula (film), 25

  Dream House, 74

  Dryden, Dan, 237

  Duchamp, Marcel, 94–95

  Dumas, Alexandre, 170

  Dunn, Douglas, 212

  Dunvegan, 264, 267

  Düsseldorf, 249

  Dylan, Bob, 387

  Earth in Upheaval (Velikovsky), 103

  East Berlin, 117

  “East Thirty-Second Street” (Tristano), 40–41

  East Village, N.Y., 206, 256, 277, 354, 355–56, 386

  École des Beaux Arts, 53, 54

  Ecuador, 358

  Egypt, 156, 184, 316–17

  Eighth Symphony (Glass), 51

  Einstein, Albert, 33, 285–86, 287, 288, 305, 316, 334

  Einstein on the Beach (Glass), 22, 33–34, 40, 41, 50, 55, 87, 89, 121, 134, 159, 222, 224, 235, 237, 241, 253, 256, 275, 286–302, 305, 308, 314, 315, 319, 369, 372

  Einstein on the Fritz (Schickele), 87

  Eisenhower, Dwight, 44

  Eliade, Mircea, 28

  Ellington, Duke, 37

  Endgame (Beckett), 104, 125

  Enfants Terribles, Les (Cocteau), 378

  Enfants Terribles, Les (film), 37, 368, 372, 374, 378–80

  Enfants Terribles, Les (opera; Glass), 368, 378–81

  Engels, Friedrich, 44

  Erb, Steve, 237

  Erzurum, 158, 161

  Escalator over the Hill (album; Bley and Haines), 252

  Evans-Wentz, Walter, 150–51, 174

  Fall of America, The (Ginsberg), 386

  Fall of the House of Usher, The (Glass), 345, 346

  “Father Death Blues” (Glass and Ginsberg), 386

  Feldman, Morton, 49, 80–81

  Fenley, Molissa, 212, 213

  Ferden, Bruce, 314, 319

  Field, Crystal, 206

  Fifth Symphony (Beethoven), 50

  Fillmore East, 229, 260

  Fine, Albert, 92–94, 97, 98, 106, 107, 139

  Fiore, Bob, 202, 203

  Firebird, The (ballet), 49, 136

  First and Last Freedom, The (Krishnamurti), 382

  Fitzgerald, Ella, 35

  Five Spot, 37, 260

  Florence, 202

  Florida, 59, 223, 224

  Flying Dutchman, The (Wagner), 313

  Fog of War, The (film), 349

  Fontainebleau, 118, 146

  “Footnote to Howl” (Glass and Ginsberg), 387

  Ford, Hermine, 263

  Foreman, Richard, 206, 209, 210

  Fourberies de Scapin, Les (Molière), 84

  Four-Gated City, The (Lessing), 320

  400 Blows, The (film), 115

  4'33" (Cage), 95

  Four Saints in Three Acts (Thomson), 293

  France, 52, 67, 112, 115, 117–19, 124, 133, 143, 144, 148, 150, 152, 153, 184, 207, 371; see also Paris

  Frank, Robert, 77, 263

  Frankenstein (stage production), 119

  Freehold, N.J., 182

  Freeman, David, 319

  Freer Gallery, 78

  Freud, Sigmund, 316, 317

  Freyer, Achim, 314, 319–20

  Friends Seminary, 13, 280–81

  Fries, Bob, 252

  Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 50

  Galileo (Brecht), 117

  Galileo Galilei, 33, 285

  Galileo Galilei (Glass), 33

  Galleria l’Attico, 212–13

  Gambia, 335–38, 341, 342, 359, 360

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 188–90, 285, 305, 309, 310, 311–12, 315, 316

  Garland, Red, 36

  General Radio (record store), 4–6, 7, 11–12, 16, 17, 34, 38–39, 121, 394

  Genet, Jean, 67, 104–5, 111, 116, 136, 338–39, 344

  Gephardt, Steve, 252

  Gere, Richard, 342

  Germany, 14, 249, 252, 309, 340

  Getz, Stan, 29, 36

  Ghoom Monastery (Samten Chöling Monastery), 171

  Giacometti, Alberto, 202

  Gibraltar, 110, 118

  Gibson, Jon, 219, 221, 225–26, 227, 236, 258

  Gide, André, 136

  Gimme Shelter (documentary), 203

  Ginsberg, Allen, 103, 156, 228, 230, 303, 342, 345, 385–90

  Ginsberg, Eugene, 388

  Ginsberg, Louis, 388

  Glass, Al, 119, 122

  Glass, Ben, 3, 4–6, 7, 9, 10, 11–12, 13, 15, 16, 17–18, 20, 21–22, 32, 34, 38–39, 45, 58, 60, 61, 119–23, 221, 222, 223, 282, 300, 394–95, 396

  Glass, Cameron, 185

  Glass, Frieda, 16

  Glass, Ida, ix, x, 1, 3–4, 7, 10, 13, 14–16, 17, 18, 20, 21–22, 31, 32, 45, 58, 61, 119, 120, 122, 19
0, 221–25, 252, 276, 299–300, 306, 321–22, 324, 393–94, 395, 396

  Glass, Ira, 4

  Glass, Juliet, 45, 110, 120, 215, 234–35, 245, 261, 262, 263, 278, 279, 280, 281, 355, 356, 357, 361, 362, 365–66

  Glass, Lou, 119, 122

  Glass, Marlowe, 185

  Glass, Marty, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8–9, 10–13, 16, 18, 38, 39, 48, 57, 121, 122, 221, 222, 223, 224, 282, 299–300, 393–95, 396

  Glass, Wolfe Zachary “Zack,” 110, 120, 192, 215, 235, 263, 267, 278, 279, 280, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 362, 365–66

  Glass Bead Game, The (Hesse), 103

  Glass Pieces (ballet), 293

  Glassworks (album; Glass), 293, 356

  Glazer, Nathan, 25

  Gluck, Christoph Willibald, 369

  Godard, Jean-Luc, 37, 115

  Golden Notebook, The (Lessing), 320

  Golden Temple, 162, 163

  Goldman, Shalom, 33, 317

  Goldray, Martin, 237

  Gonzalez, Mr. (civil officer), 118

  Gordon, David, 212

  Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, The, 151

  Gottlieb, Bob, 321, 322

  Gouline, David, 52, 57

  Gouline, Willie, 52, 56, 57, 65, 235, 262

  Govinda, Lama, 151, 171, 178

  Gradus (Glass), 219

  Grass Is Singing, The (Lessing), 320

  Gray, Spalding, 342

  Greece, 154, 156, 316

  Green, David Gordon, 349

  Greene, Brian, 285

  Green Gallery (New York), 76

  Greenwald, Mr. (concert program editor), 32

  Greenwich Village, N.Y., 274

  Grinstein, Stanley and Elyse, 358

  Grotowski, Jerzy, 111, 116, 207, 290

  Guatemala, 195

  Guggenheim Museum, 208, 241, 255, 256

  Gujarat, 189

  Gural, Beverly, 224

  Gurtu, Trilok, 135

  Guthrie Theater, 338–39

  Guy, Michel, 294, 296

  Gysin, Brion, 126

  Halifax, 261, 266, 267, 268

  Hamburg, 294, 297, 298

  Hampton, Christopher, 325, 349

  Hamstead Heath, 322

  Hand Catching Lead (film), 203

  Happy Days (Oh les Beaux Jours) (Beckett), 116

  Hardin, Louis “Moondog,” 41, 256–59

  Harper Library (University of Chicago), 33, 43, 46

  Harris, Emmylou, 342

  Harris, Roy, 58, 65, 66

  Harrison, George, 130, 133–34, 167

  Harry, Debbie, 342

  Hart, Mr. (music instructor), 11

  Havens, Richie, 342

  Hawking, Stephen, 285

  “Head On” (Glass), 219

  Heaven Lies Within Us (Bernard), 151

  Heiss, Alanna, 269

  Hemsley, Gilbert, 297, 298, 299

  Hendricks, Geoff, 263

  Henry (Glass’s uncle), ix, x, 223

  Henze, Hans Werner, 58

  Herat, 159–60

  Herman, Jane, 297–98

  Hesse, Hermann, 103, 105

  Highstein, Jene, 202, 203, 208, 214, 230–32, 233

  Himalayan Hotel (Kalimpong), 175, 176

 

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