Tolstoy Farm to Us

Mahatma Gandhi,(rightmost) then a young lawyer, with fellow Tolstoyans on Tolstoy Farm, South Africa, 1910

Philip Glass, “Satyagraha,” Act 1, Scene 2, Tolstoy Farm

First Tolstoy. Then Gandhi, who revered Tolstoy. Then Philip Glass, who revered Gandhi and wrote on commission Satyagraha, his opera honoring Gandhi. Now, us. Listen.

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