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 pavés, la plage 49
JOHANNES BIRRINGER
3 Einstein on the Beach in Belgrade: a critical testimony 66
MIŠKO ŠUVAKOVIĆ
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 SIÔN
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
