Atalanta Strategy

Atalanta Strategy

The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

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The Commission

The Commission

This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...

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Perfect Lives

Perfect Lives

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the...

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Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater...

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Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons

Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons

Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented people in the...

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Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.

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Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

A new production of Robert Ashley's 1991 opera, "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda," featuring Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto...

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