This show, first broadcast on March 30, 2014, is devoted to the life and work of the brilliant American innovator Robert Ashley, with examples of his instrumental, electronic, and operatic composition; also included is his duet with Shelley Hirsch from my opera Agamemnon. The show features excerpts from my own interview with Ashley, and the following music:
ROBERT ASHLEY
Sonata for piano, first movement (1959-1960)
Automatic Writing (1979)
Atalanta (Acts of God), Episode 1: “Max” (1985)
Agamemnon, Act 4, Scene 3 (recorded 1987)
Link to:
Music: SFCR Radio Shows 2012–2018
For more on AGAMEMNON, see:
Music Lecture: Agamemnon
Music Lecture: The Secret of 20th-Century American Music
Music: KALW Radio Show #1, A Few of My Favorite Things…
Music: SFCR Radio Show #6, Postmodernism, part 3: Three Contemporary Masters
Music: SFCR Radio Show #17, A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros
Music: SFCR Radio Show #34, Remembering Julius Eastman
For more on Robert Ashley, see:
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
Music Book: SONIC TRANSPORTS: “Blue” Gene Tyranny Essay, part 6
Music Book: Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers
Music Essay: Anne LeBaron, Hyperopera, and Crescent City: Some Historical Perspectives
Music Essay: You Can Always Go Downtown
Music Lecture: My Experiences of Surrealism in 20th-Century American Music
Music: SFCR Radio Show #5, Postmodernism, part 2: Minimalism
Music: SFCR Radio Show #35, Electro-Acoustic Music, part 3: Musicians and Synthesized Sound
NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 