Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott bring their individual creativity to an epic collaboration, decades in the making, for an exploration of life, loss and a single question: Where does true inspiration come from?
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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.
- William Duckworth, Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. Shirmer, 1995.
- Philip Glass, Words Without Music: A Memoir. W.W. Norton& Company, 2015.
- John Richardson, Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten.” University Press of New England, 1999.
- Lee Simpson & Phelim McDermott, Theatre of Blood. Oberon Books, 2005.
- Robert Waters, The Stage Works of Philip Glass. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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