Born in Baltimore in 1937, Philip Glass studied at the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. The composer of operas, film scores, and symphonies, he performs regularly with the Philip Glass Ensemble and lives in New York.
The long-awaited memoir by “the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers” (New York Times).
A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art.
"If you go to New York City to study music, you'll end up like your uncle Henry," Glass's mother warned her incautious and curious nineteen-year-old son. It was the early summer of 1956, and Ida Glass was concerned that her precocious Philip, already a graduate of the University of Chicago, would end up an itinerant musician, playing in vaudeville houses and dance halls all over the country, just like his cigar-smoking, bantamweight uncle. One could hardly blame Mrs. Glass for worrying that her teenage son would end up as a musical vagabond after initially failing to get into Juilliard. Yet, the transformation of a young man from budding musical prodigy to world-renowned composer is the story of this commanding memoir.
From his childhood in post–World War II Baltimore to his student days in Chicago, at Juilliard, and his first journey to Paris, where he studied under the formidable Nadia Boulanger, Glass movingly recalls his early mentors, while reconstructing the places that helped shape his artistic consciousness. From a life-changing trip to India, where he met with gurus and first learned of Gandhi’s Salt March, to the gritty streets of New York in the 1970s, where the composer returned, working day jobs as a furniture mover, cabbie, and an unlicensed plumber, Glass leads the life of a Parisian bohemian artist, only now transported to late-twentieth-century America.
Yet even after Glass’s talent was first widely recognized with the sensational premiere of Einstein on the Beach in 1976, even after he stopped renewing his hack license and gained international recognition for operatic works like Satyagraha, Orphée, and Akhnaten, the son of a Baltimore record store owner never abandoned his earliest universal ideals throughout his memorable collaborations with Allen Ginsberg, Ravi Shankar, Robert Wilson, Doris Lessing, Martin Scorsese, and many others, all of the highest artistic order.
Few major composers are celebrated as writers, but Philip Glass, in this loving and slyly humorous autobiography, breaks across genres and re-creates, here in words, the thrill that results from artistic creation. Words Without Music ultimately affirms the power of music to change the world.
發表於2024-09-25
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遺忘與被遺忘是人無法避免的宿命,時光終究要抹去人的肉身,因此,迴憶錄的存在就變得很有必要,哪怕僅僅作為人生的殘骸和遺跡。或許這就是菲利普·格拉斯書寫迴憶錄的齣發點,他要把人生某些細節用文字記錄保留下來。縱然,詞語無法再度化為肉身,但卻引人透過文字再次感受生...
評分 評分如果你對現代音樂稍有瞭解,便一定會對菲利普·格拉斯(Philip Glass)有所耳聞。他齣生於1937年,是20世紀最具影響力和纔華的古典音樂作麯傢。他是古典樂大師,也是電影配樂大師,他為《時時刻刻》、《楚門的世界》、《醜聞日記》等諸多經典大片擔任配樂製作。 他的創作融閤瞭西...
評分 評分如果你對現代音樂稍有瞭解,便一定會對菲利普·格拉斯(Philip Glass)有所耳聞。他齣生於1937年,是20世紀最具影響力和纔華的古典音樂作麯傢。他是古典樂大師,也是電影配樂大師,他為《時時刻刻》、《楚門的世界》、《醜聞日記》等諸多經典大片擔任配樂製作。 他的創作融閤瞭西...
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娓娓道來,文字與音樂一樣簡約。四星半。(讀完大半)
評分樂觀,執行力高。很希望看Einstein on the beach,買一張2000美元座位旁邊2美元的票。
評分一定要讀原著!重要的事情一百遍!
評分樂觀,執行力高。很希望看Einstein on the beach,買一張2000美元座位旁邊2美元的票。
評分10/16/2016 購於 Julliard Bookstore. 每周在往返Bronx的地鐵上讀這本書,通勤時間變得好過瞭很多。Music and words, love and lost, genuine and humble.
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