Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014.
2. Johnson, Mimi
3. Hamilton, Tom, 1946-
4. Humbert, Jacqueline, 1952-
5. Orrick, Katy
6. Fitzgerald, Ed.
7. Bielecki, Robert
8. Ashley, Sam
9. Buckner, Tom
10. Cordero, Marghreta
11. Klein, Adam
12. La Barbara, Joan, 1947-
13. Neuburg, Amy X.
14. Performing Artservices, Inc. pro
15. Brooklyn Academy of Music
16. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Next Wave Festival
17. Brooklyn Academy of Music. dnr

Description

1. 4 videodiscs (DVD) (165 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. 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, 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 from Corporate Mysticism, and Now Eleanor's Idea from (Spanish) Catholicism. While working at The bank, the title character, Now Eleanor, has a sort of "religious experience" that fills her with an "approach of the end of the world feeling"" This feeling compels her to leave her job in the Midwest, move to New Mexico, and become a newscaster to try to discover the point where the religions of America - Judaism, Protestantism, Business and Catholicism - merge.

Subject

1. Operas

Genre/Form

1. Filmed performances.

Contents

1. Improvement -- Foreign experiences (Sam Ashley (Don), Jacqueline Humbert (Linda), Thomas Buckner (Mr. Payne), Joan La Barbara (Now Eleanor), Marghreta Cordero (The Doctor), Amy X. Neuburg (Mr. Payne's Mother), Robert Ashley, the narrator) -- EL/Aficionado -- Now Eleanor's idea (Joan La Barbara (Now Eleanor), Amy X. Neuburg (Now Eleanor's Double), Marghreta Cordero (Now Eleanor's Low Rider Companion), Sam Ashley (Junior, Jr.), Jacqueline Humbert (Linda), Thomas Buckner (Don), Robert Ashley, the narrator).

Call number

1. *LDV 1621

Access (note)

1. Access restricted. Written permission from the Brooklyn Academy of Music required for viewing.

Credits (note)

1. Mixing and electronics, Tom Hamilton ; staging set and costume design, Jacqueline Humbert ; lighting design, Katy Orrick ; production stage manager, Ed Fitzgerald ; sound system engineer, Robert Bielecki.

Performer (note)

1. Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Marghreta Cordero, Jacqueline Humbert, Adam Klein, Joan La Barbara, Amy X. Neuburg, Robert Ashley.

Event (note)

1. Recorded, Nov. 18, 1994, Carey Playhouse, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of Next Wave Festival.

Source (note)

1. Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: Brooklyn Academy of Music collection.

Title

1. Now Eleanor's idea [videorecording] : a quartet of short operas / Brooklyn Academy of Music presents ; music and libretto by Robert Ashley ; produced by Mimi Johnson for Performing Artservices, Inc., N.Y.

Imprint

1. c1994.

Credits

1. Mixing and electronics, Tom Hamilton ; staging set and costume design, Jacqueline Humbert ; lighting design, Katy Orrick ; production stage manager, Ed Fitzgerald ; sound system engineer, Robert Bielecki.

Cast

1. Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Marghreta Cordero, Jacqueline Humbert, Adam Klein, Joan La Barbara, Amy X. Neuburg, Robert Ashley.

Event

1. Recorded, Nov. 18, 1994, Carey Playhouse, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of Next Wave Festival.

Access

1. Access restricted. Written permission from the Brooklyn Academy of Music required for viewing.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: Brooklyn Academy of Music collection.

Local note

1. Archival master located in the Dance Collection.
2. Viewing copies cataloged and serviced by RHA.

Source

1. Gift ; Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Added author

1. Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014. Now Eleanor's idea.
2. Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014. Librettist
3. Johnson, Mimi. Producer
4. Hamilton, Tom, 1946- Sound designer
5. Humbert, Jacqueline, 1952- Set designer
6. Humbert, Jacqueline, 1952- Costume designer
7. Orrick, Katy. Lighting designer
8. Fitzgerald, Ed. Production manager
9. Bielecki, Robert. Sound designer
10. Ashley, Sam. Performer
11. Buckner, Tom. Performer
12. Cordero, Marghreta. Performer
13. Humbert, Jacqueline, 1952- Performer
14. Klein, Adam. Performer
15. La Barbara, Joan, 1947- Performer
16. Neuburg, Amy X. Performer
17. Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014. Performer
18. Performing Artservices, Inc. Producer
19. Brooklyn Academy of Music.
20. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Next Wave Festival.
21. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Donor

Research call number

1. *LDV 1621