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Words Without Music

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by Philip Glass


  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

  Frontispiece: © Richard Pasley.

  Words Without Music is a work of nonfiction, although a few names and identifying details have been changed.

  Copyright © 2015 by Philip Glass

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  Words without music: a memoir / Philip Glass. — First edition.

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  ISBN 978-0-87140-438-1 (hardcover)

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