On Demand
Survival Kit
Sunday, August 24, 2003
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Philip Glass
"Music is a very social activity," Philip Glass says. Because "music doesn't exist by itself; it exists when people play it for other people.” Maybe that’s why he’s collaborated with so many other artists -- filmmakers, dancers, playwrights, poets, novelists, musicians and songwriters to create groundbreaking music for opera, theater, film, dance, and symphony, and probably a few other artforms that have slipped my mind. Let’s see what he’s packed in his survival kit to get him through a period of enforced isolation.
His list:
1. Keyboard–electric, powered by battery or solar energy, or a grand piano
2. Bach - Well Tempered Klavier (in notated form)
3. Schubert B-flat sonata (posthumous)
4. Complete works of Joseph Conrad
5. Complete works of Allen Ginsberg
6. Homer- The Iliad and the Odyssey
7. Berlioz -The Trojans (Les Troyens) CD and The Damnation of Faust CD
8. Music of south India and North India: M.S. Subilaleshim, Romani (flute), Ravi Shankar (sitar), Joshi (vocal)
1. Keyboard–electric, powered by battery or solar energy, or a grand piano
2. Bach - Well Tempered Klavier (in notated form)
3. Schubert B-flat sonata (posthumous)
4. Complete works of Joseph Conrad
5. Complete works of Allen Ginsberg
6. Homer- The Iliad and the Odyssey
7. Berlioz -The Trojans (Les Troyens) CD and The Damnation of Faust CD
8. Music of south India and North India: M.S. Subilaleshim, Romani (flute), Ravi Shankar (sitar), Joshi (vocal)
