Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its première at the Avignon Festival in 1976. The book features essays from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera's expressive substance.
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its première at the Avignon Festival in 1976. The book features essays from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera's expressive substance.
Jelena Novak is Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music at NOVA University of Lisbon. Her publications include Opera u doba medija (Opera in the Age of Media), Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, and Operofilia. John Richardson is Professor of Musicology at the University of Turku in Finland. His publications include An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal, Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten, and The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (eds. Richardson, Gorbman, and Vernallis).
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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 MIKO UVAKOVI¿ 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
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 MIKO UVAKOVI¿ 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
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