Words Without Music: A Memoir (58 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

There were two people, both with extensive experience, who provided critical help in the task of writing this book.

First I owe a special thanks to Stokes Howell, who lent his highly developed literary skills by helping to organize and shape the actual written material that I composed. This allowed the book to achieve its final narrative form.

Second, I owe my deep gratitude to Bob Weil—my main connection to the W. W. Norton and Liveright book companies. He combined a sharp, critical overview with a steady flow of encouragement, which was essential in crystallizing my growing writing skills.

I would also like to offer a special thanks to the following people:

Sheppie Glass Abramowitz, Mort Abramowitz, Marty Glass, Cevia Highstein, Norman Highstein, Beverly Gural

Jim Keller, Rebecca Litman, Charlotte Sheedy

Joanne  Akalaitis, Kyra Borre, Linda Brumbach, Don Christensen, Richard Guerin, Kaleb Kilkenny, Claire Lampen, Katy O’Donnell, Tim O’Donnell, Alisa Regas, Carla Sacks, Drew Smith, Jim Woodard

Trent Duffy, Elisabeth Kerr, Phil Marino, Drake McFeely, William Menaker, Peter Miller, Anna Oler, Don Rifkin, Bill Rusin, Albert Tang

Marcus Raskin, Gelek Rimpoche, Mr. Sarup, Phintso and Pema Thonden, Bob and Nena Thurman, and Saori Tsukada

The map of India on page 166 by Saori Tsukada and Philip Glass

INDEX

Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.

Page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations.

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