Philip Glass to Write Memoir

Composer Philip Glass will pen a memoir, according to a report in The New York Times. No publication date has been set for the book, which will be released by Liveright & Company, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company.

In the book, the 74-year-old Glass will cover his younger years and musical influences, including working in his father’s record store in Baltimore. Glass will also discuss his collaborations with such artists as Ravi Shankar and Allen Ginsberg.

Glass has written such operas as Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, In the Penal Colony, Icarus and the Edge of Time, and The Voyage. In addition, he has written original music for the Public Theater’s productions of The Bacchae, Woyzeck, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, and Cymbeline. He was also a founding member of Mabou Mines.