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- From: marcs@slc.com (Marc San Soucie)
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- Subject: Re: FYI: Lovely Music....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.031522.9526@slc.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 03:15:22 GMT
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- Michael A. Dritschel (mad@cs.wm.edu) writes:
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- > There are a few other older recordings featuring music of Robert Ashley
- > that I am aware of. One is a piece called _Purposeful Lady, Slow
- > Afternoon_ that I believe came out on Everest and is supposedly part
- > of a longer work called _The Wolfman Motor City Review_. I am not
- > aware of any recordings of this. There was also an album which came
- > out on the unfortunately now defunct 1750 Arch Records label called
- > something like _10 + 2: Spoken Word Music_ that has an excerpt of a
- > piece by Ashley called _In Sarah, Menken, and Christ There Were Men
- > and Women_.
-
- There is a complete recording of "In Sarah, Mencken, and Christ", on an
- Italian label, which I got from Wayside Music early this year. It's nice.
-
-
- > I should mention that _Perfect Lives_ was performed live at the New Music
- > America festival when it was held in Chicago in 1980(?). It was broken
- > into several parts that were performed on successive nights after the
- > main concerts were over in a river boat docked to Navy Pier (which is
- > where the festival took place). The visuals consisted of Robert
- > Ashley standing before a microphone in front of a bank of television
- > screens with a lot of wonderful video work.
-
- I saw portions of it in '80 or '81 in New York, performed live with about
- six musicians and Ashley (including David Van Tieghem and Jill Kroesen). I
- sat behind John Cage and Merce Cunningham. Ashley did "The Bar" and "The
- Backyard". I'd love to relive that experience with 12 years of hindsight!
-
- Marc San Soucie
- Portland, Oregon
- marcs@slc.com
-