In his 1980 short story "Company," Samuel Beckett begins one paragraph with the sentences: "Another trait its repetitiousness. Repeatedly with only minor variants the same bygone." When he wrote those lines, did Beckett already know that the composer Philip Glass would eventually provide the music for a staged version of the piece, at New York's Public Theater, three years later? It's fun to imagine that the writer h…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 08:00AM on April 22, 2015