Words Without Music: A Memoir (60 page)

Miller, Arthur, 116, 207, 210

Minneapolis, Minn., 255, 283, 313, 338–39

Mishima, Yukio, 343–44

Mishima
(film), 323, 343–44, 346

Mishra, Ramamurti S., 106–7

Modern Jazz Room, 36

Mojácar, 118, 312

Molina, Judith, 111, 119

Molloy
(Beckett), 104, 211

Monet, Claude, 23

Mongolia, 174

Monk, Meredith, 206, 209, 227

Monk, Thelonious, 35, 36, 37, 260

Monsters of Grace
(Glass), 301

Montavon, Guy, 325

Monte, Marisa, 342

Monteverdi, Claudio, 127, 369

Monument Valley, 327, 329

Moondog (Louis Hardin), 41, 256–59

Moore, Julianne, 348

Moore, Peter, 261–62, 263

Morel, Jean, 65, 91, 92, 93

Morocco, 346

Morris, Errol, 349

Morris, Robert, 226

Morton, Dean, 329

Moses, 317

Moses and Monotheism
(Freud), 316

Moskowitz, Robert, 263, 274

Mother Courage and Her Children
(Brecht), 104, 117

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 88, 127, 137, 144–45

Mulligan, Gerry, 80

Munich, 157

Munkacsi, Kurt, 239, 359, 360

Munkacsi, Nancy, 359

Murphy, Arthur, 236

Museum of Modern Art (New York), 80

“Music for Ensemble and Two Actresses” (Glass), 202

“Music in Contrary Motion” (Glass), 41, 239–41

“Music in Fifths” (Glass), 41, 230, 239–41, 302

“Music in Similar Motion” (Glass), 41, 220, 230, 239–41, 270, 271, 302

Music in Twelve Parts
(Glass), 41, 134, 241, 253, 256, 269–73, 280, 283, 288, 294

Music with Changing Parts
(album; Glass), 121, 241, 252, 253, 256, 263, 283

“My Favorite Things” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 35

Nancarrow, Conlon, 49

Naqoyqatsi
(film), 328, 329

Nawang Khechog, 342

Nepal, 153, 168, 174, 177

Netherlands Opera, 313, 315

Neumann, Fred, 123, 125, 204, 207, 287

Nevelson, Louise, 80

“Newcastle March (1913)” (Glass), 312

New Delhi, 153, 162, 163, 165, 167, 168, 169, 178, 186, 189, 340

New Jersey, 101, 182

Newton, Isaac, 19, 33

New York State, 181, 182, 307

Nicole, Jonathan, 112

Ninth Symphony (Mahler), 92

Nog
(Wurlitzer), 261

Noland, Kenneth, 78

Nonas, Richard, 243

Nono, Luigi, 58, 88

Norman (Glass’s cousin), 120, 121–22

North Star
(film), 77, 305–6

North Sydney (Nova Scotia), 266

Notes on a Scandal
(film), 349

Nova Scotia, 55, 208, 262–68

Oakland, Calif., 202, 203

O’Day, Anita, 37

Odetta, 44

Odyssey, The
(Homer), 32

Oedipus and Akhnaten
(Velikovsky), 316

Offenbach, Jacques, 369

Ohio, 21, 101

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

Ohrenstein, Dora, 236

O’Keeffe, Georgia, 78

Oldenburg, Claes, 72–73, 210

Olivier, Lawrence, 117

“On Cremation of Chögyam Trungpa, Vidyadhara” (Glass and Ginsberg), 387

“1 + 1” (Glass), 238

Ono, Yoko, 73

On the Road
(Kerouac), 101–2, 103

Opera House (Chicago), 32

Opus 21 (Webern), 46

Orange, Conn., 63, 64

Orenstein, Harold, 308

Orfeo, L’
(Monteverdi), 127

Origin of Species, The
(Darwin), 33

Orlovsky, Peter, 388, 390

Orphée
(film), 37, 368, 369–70, 371–72, 373–74, 381

Orphée
(opera; Glass), 368–69, 373–74, 377, 378

Orwell, George, 170

Othello
(Shakespeare), 117

Our Lady of Flowers
(Genet), 104

Ovid, 368

Page, Tim, 256

Pakistan, 152, 155, 160, 161, 162, 176

Pallis, Marco, 151

Papp, Joseph, 204–6

Paris, x, 11, 37, 42, 52–55, 56, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 75, 78, 91, 94, 102, 104, 107, 108, 110–11, 112–16, 117, 119, 123–24, 125, 129, 130, 137, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 153–54, 155, 163, 176, 183, 184, 202, 204, 206, 207, 214, 217, 219, 229, 235, 245, 256, 259, 261, 271, 290, 294, 298, 300, 305, 359, 375, 385

Parker, Charlie, 29, 34–35, 41, 80, 260

Park School (Baltimore), 8

Partch, Harry, 49

“Partita for Solo Violin” (Glass), 315

Passion of Ramakrishna, The
(album; Glass), 192–93

Patanjali, 107, 191

Patna, 168

Paula Cooper Gallery, 208, 213

Paxton, Steve, 212

Peabody Conservatory, 9–10, 36, 45, 48, 89, 224, 340, 394

Peaks and Lamas
(Pallis), 151

Peck, Richard, 236

Pennsylvania, 21, 101

Penthouse of the Gods
(Bernard), 151

Perfect American, The
(Glass), 55

Persepolis, 159

Persichetti, Vincent, 84–85, 92–93

Peru, 334–35

Peshawar, 161, 162

Pesle, Benedict, 290

Petrushka
(ballet), 49, 136

Phillips, Duncan, 78

Phillips Collection, 78–79

Photographer, The
(album; Glass), 358

“Piano Piece for David Tudor #1” (aka “Feeding the Piano”) (Young), 74

Piano Sonata, op. 1 (Berg), 42

Picasso, Pablo, 78

“Piece in the Shape of a Square” (Glass), 225–26

Pierrot le Fou
(film), 115

Piraeus, 155, 156

Pittsburgh, Pa., 107, 108–9, 110, 312

Pivar, Malcolm, 21

Pixley-Rothschild, Dorothy, 90, 218–20, 221, 225, 226, 227

Play
(
Comédie
) (Beckett), 124, 125–27, 201–2, 207–8, 209–10

Poe, Edgar Allan, 345

Poland, 14, 111

Pollock, Jackson, 79–80

Pop, Iggy, 342

Porgy and Bess
(Gershwin), 320

Poulenc, Francis, 49

Pountney, David, 319, 324

Powaqqatsi
(film), 327, 329, 330–35, 338, 359

Powell, Bud, 34, 35, 36, 41, 80, 260

Powell, Michael, 345, 346

Pranath (Indian musician), 74

Preludes and Fugues, Book 1
(Bach), 137

Presley, Elvis, 38, 307

Prince Edward Hotel (Darjeeling), 172

“Protest (1908)” (Glass), 312

Proust, Marcel, 92, 93

Public Theater, 204, 205, 206, 252, 267, 287

Puccini, Giacomo, 373

Punjab region, 162

Purnhagen, Greg, 377

Queens College, 218, 221, 299, 300

Quito, 358

Radigue, Eliane, 270

Raging Bull
(film), 346

Rainer, Yvonne, 212–13

Rakha, Alla, 22, 132–33, 191, 214, 215, 216, 218, 229, 271, 289, 339

Ramakrishna (Bengali saint), 151, 192–93

Ramayana
(Valmiki), 185, 186

Rampal, Jean-Pierre, 130

Raskin, Marcus, 42–43, 46, 57, 82

Rauschenberg, Robert, 77, 80, 95, 210, 211, 228–29, 247, 355, 358

Raymond, Bill, 204

Ready, Carlisle, 112

Real de Catorce, 196

Rebecca (Glass’s friend), 363

Reck, David, 185

Red Horse Animation, The
(Breuer), 208, 263

Red Shoes, The
(film), 345

Reed, Lou, 342

Reggio, Godfrey, 308, 326–28, 329–30, 331, 332–35, 341, 343, 349, 376

Reich, Steve, 220, 225, 226, 227, 236, 249, 250, 258

Reiner, Fritz, 23, 32, 49

Renaud, Madeleine, 116

Requiem
(Verdi), 88

Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The
(Brecht), 117

Rheingold, Sandy, 231–32, 233, 242, 248

Ricke, Rolf, 145–46, 248

Riesman, David, 25, 26–27

Riesman, Michael, 26, 236, 287, 359, 376

Rigoletto
(Verdi), 187

Riley, Terry, 226, 227

Rimpoche, Gelek, 180, 182, 183,
303
, 387, 390

Rimpoche, Kalu, 171

Rimpoche, Ken, 182

Rimpoche, Khyongla Rato, 182

Rimpoche, Tomo Geshe, 171, 177–80, 181, 182–83, 188, 196, 366–67, 393

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, 49

Rio de Janeiro, 330, 332, 368

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony
(Brecht), 104

Rishikesh, 165, 166–67, 168

Rite of Spring, The
(ballet), 49, 136

Robbins, Jerome, 284, 293, 298

Rockwell, John, 321

Roland (acquaintance), 73

Rollins, Sonny, 35

Rome, 212–13, 259

Rome
(Glass), 301

Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare), 210

Rooks, Conrad, 129, 130, 133, 151, 163

Rose, Barbara, 77, 305–6

Rossi, Mick, 236–37

Rothenberg, Susan, 243

Rothko, Mark, 78–79

Rothschild, Joel, 219

Rotterdam, 259, 294, 305, 314, 319

Rouson, John, 72–73, 74–75, 76, 93, 94, 95, 99, 110, 112

Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), 117

Rudin, Scott, 347, 348–49

Runaway Horses
(Mishima), 344

Russell, Arthur, 98

Russia, 16, 49, 160

Sagan, Carl, 49

Sag Harbor, N.Y., 94

“Sailing to Byzantium” (Yeats), 156

St. Louis, Mo., 101, 107, 255

Samdup, Lama Kazi Dawa, 150, 174

Samten Chöling Monastery (Ghoom Monastery), 171

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