Read Words Without Music: A Memoir Online
Authors: Philip Glass
Philip Glass and the score of “Piece In the Shape of a Square” set up for the performance at the Cinematheque in New York. May 1968.
[PHOTO BY PETER MOORE © BARBARA MOORE / LICENSED BY VAGA, NEW YORK, NY]
Dorothy Pixley-Rothschild performing “Strung Out” at the Cinematheque in New York. May 1968.
[PHOTO BY PETER MOORE © BARBARA MOORE / LICENSED BY VAGA, NEW YORK, NY]
Philip Glass Sunday afternoon solo loft concert at 10 Elizabeth Street. New York, early 1970s.
[RANDALL LABRY]
Richard Serra and Philip Glass. New York, early 1970s.
[© RICHARD LANDRY 1975]
Richard Serra and Philip Glass installing
Splash Piece: Casting, 1969-70
at Jasper Johns’s studio. New York, 1969.
[COURTESY OF RICHARD SERRA]
Juliet, Philip, Zack, and JoAnne. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, summer 1973.
[PHILIP GLASS]
John Dan MacPherson, patriarch of the MacPherson family and close friend of the Glass and Wurlitzer families.
[PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN]
Rudy Wurlitzer and Philip Glass. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, summer 2000.
[LYNN DAVIS]
Philip Glass with Zack and Juliet in Venice, Italy, on the first tour of
Einstein on the Beach
. Summer 1976.
[© ROBERTO MASOTTI]
Sheryl Sutton and Lucinda Childs in “Knee Play 2,”
Einstein on the Beach
, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. New York, 1984.
[PHOTOGRAPH © PAULA COURT]
Einstein on the Beach,
Act 4, scene 3: “Spaceship.” The 2012 revival produced by Pomegranate Arts.
[© LUCIE JANSCH]
Satyagraha,
Act 1, scene 1: “The Kuru Field of Justice,” with Douglas Perry singing the part of Gandhi. Directed by David Pountney. Designed by Robert Israel. Netherlands Opera, 1980.
[TOM CARAVAGLIA © 2008]
Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio. Production meeting for Godfrey’s film
Visitors.
Opticnerve Studio, Red Hook, Brooklyn, 2013.
[© MIKE DEBBIE]