![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | A Review of Robert Ashley’s “That Morning Thing”
This review deals with a performance on Dec. 8, 1969, at Mills College, of Robert Ashley’s opera “That Morning Thing”. Charles Shere speaks out against the mainstream media’s reception of the opera as well as the rude reaction of some of the audience.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Opera; Robert Ashley
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| Three Works by Robert Ashley
Two electronic music works and one rather avant-garde piano sonata by Robert Ashley. The first piece of electronic music “Heat” was conceived as a sort of soundtrack for one of Milton Cohen’s light sculpture/theater works entitled “Manifestations: Light and Sound.” This is followed by a somewhat sparse piano sonata which has as it’s subtitle, “Christopher Columbus crosses to the New World in the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria using only dead reckoning and a crude astrolabe....
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; Robert Ashley
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| That Morning Thing, an opera by Robert Ashley
A live recording of the complete experimental opera, “That Morning Thing” by Robert Ashley, possibly from the Dec. 8, 1969 performance at Mills College. Composed in 1967 this was Ashley’s second foray into the realm of avant-garde musical theater, and is a work for five principal voices, eight dancers, women's chorus and tape. The mainstream media’s reaction, as well as that of some in the audience, was notably mixed, however rather than being a commentary on the ultimate quality of the ...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Opera; Music Theatre; Robert Ashley
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| Morning Concert: Robert Ashley - Robert Ashley
Robert Ashley edited interview on KPFA's Morning Concert, 3 November 1983. In addition to talking about his interest in multi-track recording and opera, Ashley recalls that in the early Fifties in NYC there were only a half a dozen new music concerts in an entire season. How things have changed!
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Robert Ashley; Interview; Opera; New Music
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