Words Without Music: A Memoir (61 page)

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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Glass, Philip.

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

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1. Glass, Philip. 2. Composers—United States—Biography. I. Title.

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