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).

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 ŠUVAKOVI¿

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