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ARTIST
ASHLEY, ROBERT
TITLE
Foreign Experiences
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
LOVELY MUSIC
CATALOG #
LCD 1008CD
LCD 1008CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
3/10/2017
Last copies. 2006 release.
Foreign Experiences
was commissioned by Performing Artservices, Inc. (1993) with funds from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. The opera was premiered by the
Robert Ashley Ensemble
at the Festival d'Avignon in 1994. This realization is a duet version by
Sam Ashley
and
Jacqueline Humbert
. The pre-recorded voices of the Ashley ensemble are the background chorus. Robert Ashley's
Now Eleanor's Idea
is a quartet of short operas based on the notion of a sequence of events seen from four, different points of view. At the same time, each opera is an allegory, like
Bunyan
's
Pilgrim's Progress
(1678), for an individual's self-realization within the context of a major religion found in the United States.
Improvement
takes its imagery and plot from Judaism,
Foreign Experiences
from Pentecostal Evangelism,
eL/Aficionado
(LCD 1004CD) from Corporate Mysticism, and
Now Eleanor's Idea
(LCD 1009CD) from (Spanish) Catholicism. The inspiration for these works came specifically from four sources: the work of the historian,
Frances A. Yates
(1900-1983), whose specialty of interests included the influence of Kabbalistic mysticism on the birth of modernism and scientific philosophy in Italy in the 16th century (as a result of the expulsion of Jews from Spain during the Inquisition); the writings of
Carlos Castaneda
(and the arguments about him as a writer and about the intentions of his work); Low Rider Magazine, the fan-cult magazine of the Low Rider movement in the Southwestern United States; and finally, corporate vocabulary, what it sounds like and how it is used in popular publications, like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, or Fortune Magazine.
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