Words Without Music
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Sanchez, Victor, 194–96
Sandresky, Eleanor, 237
San Francisco, Calif., 29, 100, 101, 102, 109, 111, 123, 327
San Luis Potosí, 195
Santa Fe, N.Mex., 326, 327, 362
Santo Domingo, 5
Sarabhai family, 189
Sargentini, Fabio, 212–13
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 103–4
Sarup, Mr. (Indian shop owner), 188–89
Satchidananda, Swami, 151, 163–64, 166
Sat Hon, 193–94
Satie, Erik, 225
Satyagraha (Glass), 33–34, 51, 61, 88–89, 91, 147–48, 189, 192, 211, 224, 277, 302, 305, 308–16, 318, 319, 320, 324, 326, 369, 372, 382
Savitsky, Richard, 355
Scandinavia, 309
Schechner, Richard, 206, 209
Schickele, David, 86–87
Schickele, Peter, 86–87, 100
Schneider, Alan, 109, 111, 123
Schoenberg, Arnold, 38–39, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 88
Schoonmaker, Thelma, 345, 346
Schrader, Paul, 323, 343–44, 346
Schrödinger, Erwin, 33
Schubert, Franz, 18, 135, 145
Schuman, William, 58, 66, 88, 92
Schumann, Peter, 206
Science and Sanity (Korzybski), 29
Scorsese, Martin, 193, 345–47
Screens, The (Genet), 104, 116, 338–39
Screens, The (Glass and Suso), 339
Secret Agent, The (film), 349
Senegal, 336
Serra, Richard, 76–77, 95, 202–3, 227, 228, 232, 242–45, 246, 247–50, 251, 252, 254, 263, 273, 280, 354
Serra Pelada gold mine, 330–32
Seventh Seal, The (film), 37
Seventh Symphony (Glass), 51
Shafrazi, Tony, 159
Shakespeare, William, 19, 117, 204, 205, 207, 209, 234, 291, 371, 388
Shanghai, 353
Shankar, Ravi “Raviji,” 22, 129–34, 135, 149, 154, 184, 191, 201, 214–15, 218, 229, 236, 251, 271, 339, 340–41, 385, 391
Shapiro, Joel, 243
Shiraz, 159
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 17, 18, 145
Shubert Theater, 385, 386
Shute, Nevil, 286
Siddartha (Hesse), 103
Sikkim, 152, 174, 175
Silence (Cage), 94, 95, 103
Siliguri, 169, 170, 171, 183
Simon, Paul, 342
Sinatra, Frank, 35, 38
Sirlin, Jerome, 386, 387
Sivananda (Hindu spiritual teacher), 151, 191–92
Sivananda Ashram, 165, 166–67
Sixth Symphony (Glass), 51
Skalides, Aristotle, 31
Skelton, Red, 17
Smith, Jack, 98, 206, 250, 256
Smith, Patti, 342, 390
Smithson, Robert, 203
Snow, Michael, 249
SoHo district, N.Y., 206, 212, 213–14, 218, 230, 233, 269–70, 355
Solomon, Norman, 93–94
Sonada, 171, 173
“Songs of Milarepa” (Glass), 193
Sonnier, Keith, 243
Sousa, Conrad, 84
South Africa, 310, 311, 312
South America, 114, 332, 334, 341
“Spaceship” music (Glass), 296
Spain, 118, 154, 309, 312, 340
Sparrows Point, Md., xi, 58, 59
Spiral Jetty (film), 203
Stalin, Joseph, 284, 285
Stedelijk Museum, 248, 249, 250
Stein, Gertrude, 293
Steiner, Tom, 21–22, 49
Stella, Frank, 80
Steppenwolf (Hesse), 103
Sterman, Andrew, 237
Steve (Glass’s cousin), 68, 214
Stevens, Sufjan, 342
Stevenson, Adlai, 44
Stewart, Ellen, 204, 208, 280
Stipe, Michael, 342
Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 47, 58, 81, 115, 146, 228
Stoller, Mike, 306–7
Stravinsky, Igor, 17, 49, 127, 136
Streep, Meryl, 348
Streisand, Barbra, 38
Strindberg, August, 117
String Quartet no. 1 (Glass), 127, 202
“Strung Out” (Glass), 219, 225, 226
Stuttgart, 91, 300, 314, 318, 319, 320
Stuttgart Opera, 281, 318, 319
Sullivan, Bill, 21, 78
Suso, Foday Musa, 335–41, 342, 359, 360–61
Sutton, Sheryl, 288
Switzerland, 3, 248, 266
Sydney (Nova Scotia), 266
Symphony no. 3 (Glass), 139
Symphony no. 5 (Glass; 1999), 193
Symphony no. 5 (Persichetti), 93
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), 383
Tabriz, 158
Tagore, Rabindranath, 310, 311
Taiji on 23rd Street (film), 194
Taj Mahal (musician), 342
Taj Mahal Hotel (Bombay), 184
Taking Lives (film), 349
Tatum, Art, 36
Taxi Driver (film), 346, 347
Taylor, Cecil, 73
Taylor, Paul, 212
Techung, 342
Tehran, 157, 158
Temaner, Jerry, 34, 36, 37, 40, 109
Temaner, “Little Al,” 34
Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The (Mishima), 344
Tennyson, Alfred, 388
Tenzin Choegyal, 342
Texas, 101, 299, 355
Textbook of Yoga Psychology, The (Mishra), 107
Tharchin, Gegen, 152, 174, 175–77, 188
Tharp, Twyla, 212
Tharpa Chöling Monastery, 177
Théâtre de l’Odéon, 116
Théâtre National Populaire (TNP), 116
Theory and Practice of Mandala, The (Tucci), 151
Thin Blue Line, The (film), 349
Thomas, Daniela, 324
Thomas, Gerald, 324
Thomson, Virgil, 49, 58, 66, 139, 293
Thonden, Pema, 181–82
Thonden, Phintso, 181
Three Musketeers, The (Dumas), 170
Threepenny Opera, The (Brecht), 104
Thurman, Robert, 182, 342, 390
Tibet, 152, 164, 168, 169, 173, 174, 175, 176, 181, 193, 341–42
Tibetain Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz, ed.), 151
Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (Evans-Wentz, ed.), 150–51
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (Evans-Wentz, ed.), 151
Tibet House US, 341–42, 345, 390
Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa (Evans-Wentz, ed.), 151
Tolstoy, Leo, 310, 311
“Tolstoy Farm (1910)” (Glass), 311–12
Toltecs of the New Millennium, The (Sanchez), 194
Topkapi, 157
Toscanini, Arturo, 50
Towards a Poor Theatre (Grotowski), 111, 207
Town Hall (NYC concert venue), 272, 298
Toyko, 343
“Train” (Glass), 40, 288–89
Trial, The (Kafka), 392
“Trials” (Glass), 289
Tristano, Lennie, 40–41, 260
“Triumphal March” (Verdi), 54
Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire (Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear) (Satie), 225
Trout Quintet (Schubert), 135
Truffaut, François, 37, 115
Trungpa, Chögyam, 387
Tucci, Giuseppe, 151
Turkey, 152, 153, 155, 156–57, 158, 159
Turner, Pierce, 342
Tutankhamun, 316
Twombly, Cy, 77
“Two Pages” (Glass), 238, 249, 250–51
Ulmer, James “Blood,” 37
Undertow (film), 349
Unnamable, The (Beckett), 104
Urey, Harold C., 25, 26
Vasulka, Woody and Steina, 213
Vaughan, Sarah, 35, 37
Vawter, Ron, 98
Velikovsky, Immanuel, 103, 316
Veloso, Caetano, 342
Venice, Calif., 329
Verdi, Giuseppe, 54, 55, 88, 320, 373
Vermont, 71, 206, 313
Verrett, Shirley, 93
Video Exchange Theater, 292–93, 298
Vienna, 245
Village Vanguard, 37, 260
Virgil, 368
Vishnudevananda, 151
Visitors (film), 328, 329
Vithaldas, Yogi, 72, 106, 151
Vivaldi, Antonio, 383
Vivekananda, Swami, 105, 151
“Vow (1906), The” (Glass), 312
Voyage, The (Glass), 324–25
Wagner, Richard, 127, 313
Wainwright, Rufus, 342
Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 56, 104, 209–10
Waiting for the Barbarians (Glass), 325
Walker, Elsie, 342
Walk on the Wild Side (Algren), 28
Walter, Bruno, 50
Walters, Paul, 298–99
Wangpo, Rinzing, 178
Wangyal, Geshe, 174, 177, 182
Warrilow, David, 75, 98, 123, 124, 125, 204
Washington, D.C., 7, 23, 37, 78, 79, 121, 160
Wavelength (film), 249, 250
Way and the Mountain, The (Pallis), 151
Way of the White Clouds, The (Govinda), 151, 178
Webern, Anton, 42, 46, 47
Webster, Ben, 37
Weigel, Helene, 116
Weil, Sue, 283
Weill, Kurt, 104, 301
West Berlin, 117
West Hampstead, 322
West Side Story (film), 293
West Virginia, 12
White Raven (Glass), 301
“Wichita Vortex Blues” (Glass and Ginsberg), 386
“Wichita Vortex Sutra” (poem; Ginsberg), 386
Wife of Martin Guerre, The (Bergsma), 65
Wigram, 189
Williams, Tennessee, 116, 207, 210
Wilson, Robert, 33, 50, 55, 159, 185, 199, 206, 209, 213, 222, 283–85, 286–88, 290–95, 296–97, 298–99, 300–301, 308, 334
Wolfe, Stanley, xi, xii, 58, 64–65
Wolff, Christian, 80–81
Wood, Margaret, 290
Woolf, Virginia, 347, 348
Worlds in Collision (Velikovsky), 103
Woyzeck (Büchner), 267
Wu Man, 341
Wurlitzer, Rudy, 55, 261, 262–63, 264, 266, 326, 327, 362
Wyoming, 75, 100
Yeats, W. B., 156
Yockel, Jane, 290
Yogananda, Paramahansa, 106
Yoga Sutras (Patanjali), 107
Young, La Monte, 73–74, 226, 227, 228
Younghusband, Francis, 175
Zappa, Frank, 229, 260
Zeltzman, Michel, 67–69, 72, 73, 74–75, 93, 94, 95, 101, 105, 106, 107, 110, 114, 202, 256–57
Zoudoumis, Leo, 331
Zucker, Irv, 21
Zurich, 135
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