· Cultural Writing. As Ashley tells it An over-the-hill entertainer, and his somewhat younger pal, Buddy (The World's Greatest Piano Player), find themselves in a small town on the Midwest circuit playing at The Perfect Lives Lounge/5. · Robert Ashley Ma - March 3, An opera for television by Robert Ashley, created in Excepts from four of the seven acts. The entire pie. PERFECT LIVES. An opera for television by Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley’s television opera “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, et al, in the American Midwest. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it .
Perfect Lives: An Opera|Robert Ashley, Depth of Betrayal|Renee Brush, Domesticating Symbols (Applied Virtuality, Metalithikum)|Vera Bühlmann, Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons (Hardcover)|Garry O'Connor. Find album reviews, songs, credits and award information for Ashley: Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley on AllMusic - - Available on CD and videotape, Perfect Lives is. - Robert Ashley, Perfect Lives In the back gallery, JOAN presents Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives, an opera produced for television and originally broadcast on BBC Channel Four in Shown here on video, Perfect Lives is an avant-garde opera and a key work of experimental television that has been described as, "the most influential.
Ashley's 'Perfect Lives' has a long history, dating from the late s, and exists in many different forms. This CD is the only available complete version of what Ashley calls an 'opera for TV in 7 half-hour episodes'. A classic of 'minimalism', the work also redefined 'opera' with its use of video imagery. The first opera I did, Music With Its Roots in Ether (), has been broadcasted a lot. The next one I did, Perfect Lives (), was produced by Channel 4 in Great Britian and was shown there for two years and then throughout Europe but only parts of it have been broadcast in the United States. Robert Reynolds Ashley was an American composer, who was best known for his television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. His works often involve intertwining narratives and take a surreal multidisciplinary approach to sound, theatrics and writing, and have been continuously performed by various interpreters during and after his life, including Automatic Writing and Perfect Lives.
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