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Robert Ashley
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Author : Kyle Gann
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2012-12-16
Robert Ashley written by Kyle Gann and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book explores the life and works of the pioneering opera composer Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman, formed the Sonic Arts Union, a group that turned conceptualism toward electronics. He was also instrumental in the influential ONCE Group, a theatrical ensemble that toured extensively in the 1960s.During his tenure as its director, the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor presented most of the decade's pioneers of the performing arts. Particularly known for his development of television operas beginning with Perfect Lives, Ashley spun a long series of similar text/music works, sometimes termed "performance novels." These massive pieces have been compared with Wagner's Ring Cycle for the vastness of their vision, though the materials are completely different, often incorporating noise backgrounds, vernacular music, and highly structured, even serialized, musical structures. Drawing on extensive research into Ashley's early years in Ann Arbor and interviews with Ashley and his collaborators, Kyle Gann chronicles the life and work of this musical innovator and provides an overview of the avant-garde milieu of the 1960s and 1970s to which he was so central. Gann examines all nine of Ashley's major operas to date in detail, along with many minor works, revealing the fanatical structures that underlie Ashley's music as well as private references hidden in his opera librettos.
Perfect Lives
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Author : Robert Ashley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Perfect Lives written by Robert Ashley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Music categories.
"Ashley, a legendary figure in American experimental music theater, has been a major influence on avant-garde composers and writers. His 1983 opera-for-television Perfect Lives was acclaimed in England but is not widely known in the United States. This publication of the libretto coincides with the release of a three-CD package of the opera itself. The text is a marvel of disjointed, flat, quintessentially American language, an apt reflection of the Midwestern locale of the plot. Readers who prefer conventional structure and logical syntax will be repelled by the Gertrude Stein-like fragmentation and maddening obscurity. The text, like all libretti, is an incomplete document, but here, amidst the flakiness, there are moments of great insight and humor. Ashley's candid remarks on the history of the opera and on the nature of composing itself make an entertaining epilog." --Larry Lipkis, Library Journal.
Quicksand
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Author : Robert Ashley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Quicksand written by Robert Ashley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Fiction. "QUICKSAND was written to be an opera libretto. But it was written in the form of a novel....I am devoted to "mystery" stories. I read them one after another, mostly two or three times. Some of the best writers today are writing in this form. So, I thought that I would try to make an opera libretto from a mystery story, told verbatim. That is, the libretto and the novel would be the same: no scenes moved around or actions adapted to the proportions of a libretto, just tell the story the way it's told in the novel. But first I needed a novel....So that meant I had to write a mystery novel. Where do you start? The answer is: I always need a 'location' to be inspired to tell a story. Everything in the novel is true, except for a lot of the facts." Robert Ashley"
Robert Ashley
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Author : James Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Robert Ashley written by James Lamb and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with categories.
This book explores the life and works of the pioneering opera composer Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman, formed the Sonic Arts Union, a group that turned conceptualism toward electronics. He was also instrumental in the influential ONCE Group, a theatrical ensemble that toured extensively in the 1960s.During his tenure as its director, the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor presented most of the decade's pioneers of the performing arts. Particularly known for his development of television operas beginning with Perfect Lives, Ashley spun a long series of similar text/music works, sometimes termed "performance novels." These massive pieces have been compared with Wagner's Ring Cycle for the vastness of their vision, though the materials are completely different, often incorporating noise backgrounds, vernacular music, and highly structured, even serialized, musical structures.
Celestial Excursions
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Author : Robert Reynolds Ashley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-06
Celestial Excursions written by Robert Reynolds Ashley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06 with categories.
Music With Roots In The Aether
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Author : Robert Ashley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Music With Roots In The Aether written by Robert Ashley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Avant-garde (Music). categories.
Atalanta
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Author : Robert Ashley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Atalanta written by Robert Ashley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Operas categories.
Drama. Music. Opera. This innovative opera was developed and performed in the 1980s, widely praised internationally, and reviewed. This book is the first publication of the entire libretto, with an afterword by Robert Ashley. "ATALANTA is the second in a cycle of three operas (PERFECT LIVES and Now Eleanor's Idea being the first and third) which have defined Robert Ashley as the single most important figure in American experimental music theater. The operas particularly this one are complex. It takes many listenings to explore the levels which Ashley combines effortlessly in his librettos. It has to be said also that he is a fine writer of prose and the depth of these works reflects the quality of a highly developed literary mind as well as that of a first rate composer. Having read the libretto several times now, I can say that the text is as inexhaustibly rich as that of PERFECT LIVES" Paul Schultze, The Wire."
Beautifully Absurd
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Author : Robert Ashley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01-04
Beautifully Absurd written by Robert Ashley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-04 with categories.
Paul Mathews never wanted to be an average Joe, so when he became a 9-5 working man, a husband and a father, he rebelled. Living alone 20 years later, a massive stroke leaves him tethered to a ventilator and unable to communicate. Two weeks after his stroke, Paul awakens to a world of beeping machines, dutiful hospital staff and a television he cannot turn off. Severely debilitated and fearing the end, Paul's greatest wish is to see his son, Jacob, again, and somehow repair their fractured relationship. But the hospital doesn't even have Jacob's nor Paul's ex-wife, Sarah's, phone number, leaving Paul dependent upon his doctors to choose his course of care. With the costly advances in medical care, Paul can be kept alive for years, but he only wants to be kept alive long enough to see his son again. Isolated and in this tenuous state Paul is bombarded by the recollections of his life: his days of student protest, Vietnam, his hopeful marriage, his bitter divorce and the solitary existence he chose afterward. He urgently struggles to make sense of his life and find a peace that has eluded him up until now. The Baby Boomers are getting older and while their health care is a right, death is a fact. Paul's ride through the medical system will hopefully give this generation of Americans the impetus to discuss end of life care with their family and their doctor
An Ashley Genealogy
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Robert Ashley immigrated, probably from Lowesby, Leicester, England, to Springfield, Massachusetts during or before 1638/39. He died in 1682.
The Ashley Genealogy
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Author : Francis Bacon Trowbridge
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2014-03
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