“Palabras sin música”, by Philip Glass.

Philip Glass is the most popular living American composer – one of the creators of the minimalist movement, along with Steve Reich, La Monte Young and Terry Riley. His work – symphonies, operas, soundtracks, etc. – has even been played at the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He is now 80 years old, having just turned 80 on 31 January, and two years ago he wrote his memoirs, Words Without Music, now published in Spain. He tells how he has been a motorcyclist (he has travelled several times from coast to coast across the USA). That he married for the first time in 1965, in Gibraltar, after visiting with his future wife an American painter friend who lived in Mojácar. He was a taxi driver and worked as an assistant to his friend, the sculptor Richard Serra. And that he did not make a living from music until he was 42, when he was commissioned to write the opera Satyagraha, based on the life of Gandhi. And yes, in his more than four hundred pages he also talks about his music, and about the dodecaphonic or jazz he discovered in Chicago in the early 50s…