A clear-eyed account from a minimalist master
Autobiography: Words Without Music. By Philip Glass. Faber & Faber, €30. Reviewed by Jonathan O’Brien
‘I had that Salvador Dalí in the back of my cab once. Very clever man.” Philip Glass doesn’t quite put it in these exact terms, but that’s the gist of the story. In a previous life, roughly four decades ago, the then unknown composer was driving a taxi in New York to make ends meet. He ...