Words Without Music： A Memoir / Philip Glass ;
- 作者： Glass, Philip, 1937-
- 出版： Wells Street, London : W. W. Norton & Company Ltd c2015
- 版本：1st ed.
- ISBN： 9780871404381 (hbk.)
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- 系統號： 005157194 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
New York Times Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Award Finalist for the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing "Reads the way Mr. Glass's compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow." --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
《紐約時報》暢銷書，美國國家公共電台年度最佳圖書，《芝加哥論壇報》文學獎得主，馬菲爾德獎（國家藝術寫作獎）入圍作品。 「讀起來就像格拉斯先生的作曲一樣精彩：節奏緊湊，暗藏著一股微妙的情感暗流。」——科琳娜·達·豐塞卡-沃爾海姆
摘要註
A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Here his behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art. From his childhood in post-World War II Baltimore to his student days in Chicago, at Julliard, 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.The composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores examines his own life and career. 菲利普·格拉斯是世界知名的交響樂、歌劇和電影配樂作曲家。美國當代作曲家，簡約主義風格的代表人物之一，深受東方文化和流行音樂的影響。至少十四首交響曲（第15號仍在創作中），歌劇《愛因斯坦在海灘》《非暴力抵抗》《埃赫那吞》，大合唱《伊泰普》，兩首小提琴協奏曲，三首鋼琴協奏曲，弦樂四重奏《伴侶》（後改編為弦樂隊曲），電影配樂包括《失衡生活》《三島由紀夫傳》《楚門的世界》《時時刻刻》等。另外，很少有作曲家以作家的身份為人稱道，但菲利普·格拉斯在這部充滿愛意且略帶幽默的自傳中，突破了文體界限，用文字重現了藝術創作帶來的激動人心之感。 《無樂之言》或譯 《無音樂的文字》最終肯定了音樂改變世界的力量。
內容註
Opening -- Part 1 -- Baltimore -- Chicago -- Julliard -- Paris -- Ravi Shankar -- Nadia Boulanger -- Journey to the East -- Rishikesh, Katmandu, and Darjeeling -- The blessed doctor of the Tomo Valley -- Kathakali and Satyagraha -- Four paths -- Part 2 -- Return to New York -- First concerts -- Art and music -- Cape Breton -- New York's East Village -- Einstein on the beach -- Part 3 -- Opera -- Music and film -- Candy Jernigan -- The Cocteau trilogy -- Closing -- Index