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Contents
- Contents
- List of figures viii
- List of music examples x
- Series editor preface xi
- Foreword: music and culture in the wake of Einstein xiii
- Contributors xvii
- Acknowledgements xxiii
- Introduction xxv
- JOHN RICHARDSON AND JELENA NOVAK
- Knee chapter 1
- Paying attention to Einstein: Philip Glass interviewed by John Richardson 1
- PART 1 Einstein on the shores of culture 13
- 1 Einstein on the radio 15
- ROBERT FINK
- 2 Sous les paves, la plage 49
- JOHANNES BIRRINGER
- 3 Einstein on the Beach in Belgrade: a critical testimony 66
- MISKO SUVAKOVIC
- Knee chapter 2
- Einstein on the Beach is not radical, it is classic: Robert Wilson interviewed by Bojan Djordjev 79
- PART 2 From repetition to representation 87
- 4 Intuition and algorithm in Einstein on the Beach 89
- KYLE GANN
- 5 "Only pictures to hear": reading Einstein on the Beach through experimental theater 106
- PWYLL AP SION
- 6 Creating beauty in chaos: Robert Wilson's visual authorship in Einstein on the Beach 125
- AVRA SIDIROPOULOU
- Knee chapter 3
- Stay out of the way of Bob Wilson when he dances: Lucinda Childs interviewed by Jelena Novak 141
- PART 3 Beyond drama: surfaces and agencies of performance 149
- 7 Heavenly bodies: the integral role of dance in Einstein on the Beach 151
- LEAH G. WEINBERG
- 8 Anonymous voice, sound, indifference 174
- ZEYNEP BULUT
- Knee chapter 4
- Artists recall and respond 195
- Suzanne Vega, Under the influence - Philip Glass 195
- Two Finnish composers reminisce: Juhani Nuorvala, Petri Kuljuntausta 198
- Tom Johnson, Rehearsing Einstein on the Beach 203
- Two steps forwards but three steps back, and then one step forwards again - Peter Greenaway interviewed by John Richardson 206
- PART 4 Operatic machines and their ghosts 211
- 9 Leaving and re-entering: punctuating Einstein on the Beach 213
- SANDER VAN MAAS
- 10 Historia Einsteinalium: from the beach to the church, via theater and "state bank" 231
- JELENA NOVAK
- Knee chapter 5
- Critical excavations 253
- Pieter T'Jonck, How democratic baroque came about in dance and Einstein on the Beach 253
- Frits van der Waa, Einstein in the press 261
- Appendix 1: Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach,storyboard drawings 271
- Appendix 2: Einstein on the Beach, spoken texts 276
- Bibliography 287
- Index 301