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Subject: Joni In Fiction
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 05:45:24 +0000
From: gerime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Out of lurkdom (briefly)
Article by writer Michael Cunningham ("The Hours") on the Philip Glass
site:
Extract:
< Each novel I've written has developed a soundtrack of sorts; a
body of music that subtly but palpably helped shape the book in
question. I don't imagine most people who've read any of my books could
readily see their connections to particular pieces of music, but I have
long been aware that A Home at the End of the World evolved, in part,
from Laurie Anderson's Big Science, Joni Mitchell's Blue, and the
Mozart's Requiem; that Flesh and Blood derived from the operas of Verdi,
Neil Young's After the Gold Rush, several albums by The Smiths, and Jeff
Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah; and The Hours from
Schubert (particularly Death and the Maiden), Brian Eno's Music for
Airports, Peter Gabriel's Mercy Street, and, for reasons I can't begin
to explain, Radiohead's OK Computer. The one constant since I started
trying to write novels, however -my only ongoing act of listening
fidelity- has been the work of Philip Glass. >
Read the whole article here:
http://www.philipglass.com/hours.html
Gerry
N.P. Antony and the Johnsons - "I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy"
All you lovers of great and special music check them out here:
http://www.antonyandthejohnsons.com/samples/samples.html
