Title

Improvement [sound recording] / [music and libretto by] Robert Ashley.

Author

Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Elektra Nonesuch, p1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Humbert, Jacqueline, 1952-
• Buckner, Thomas, 1941-
• La Barbara, Joan, 1947-
• Ashley, Sam.
• Klein, Adam, 1960-
• Neuburg, Amy X, 1962-
• Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014.

Description

2 sound discs (89 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Now Eleanor's idea. Improvement

Alternative Title

• Now Eleanor's idea. Improvement
• Don leaves Linda

Subjects

• Television operas
• Operas
• Musique électronique
• Opéras
• Electronic music

Note

• "An opera for television"--Container.
• Episode 1 in a quartet of operas for television entitled: Now Eleanor's idea.
• Subtitle on container: Don leaves Linda.
• Compact discs.
• Program notes, synopsis, and libretto ([40] p.)--laid in container.

Credits (note)

• David Rosenboom, Robert Ashley: producers ; David Bither: executive producer ; Tom Erbe: engineer.

Performer (note)

• Jacqueline Humbert (Linda) ; Thomas Buckner (Don, Mr. Payne, Linda's companion) ; Joan La Barbara (Now Eleanor) ; Sam Ashley (Junior, Jr.) ; Adam Klein (The Doctor) ; Amy X Neuburg (Mr. Payne's mother) ; the composer, narrator.

Event (note)

• "Voices were recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California."

Contents

Disc 1. Act 1. The Argument (1:29) -- Sunset at the turnoff (1:08) -- The airline ticket counter (1:40) -- The correspondences text (2:42) -- The ride to town (6:38) -- The airline ticket counter (1:44) -- The indifference text (4:36) -- Back home ... (2:01) -- Mr. George Payne (2:09) -- The contents of her purse (10:14) -- Supper with Mr. Payne's mother (4:40) -- Golf left-handed (3:27) -- A moment"very late" ... (1:32) -- Disc 2. Act 2. The big city (0:53) -- Tarzan (3:03) -- The big city (0:40) -- The doctor (3:53) -- The offering of images (4:20) -- The good life (5:10) -- Trouble (0:27) -- The good life (0:13) -- Trouble (2:40) -- The good life (0:13) -- Trouble (2:40) -- The good life (0:40) -- A place in the country (2:46) -- Happiness, prosperity and forgetfulness (9:06) -- The bridge game (5:03) -- North"Berlin/a Tango" (2:03) -- East"river rouge" (0:30) -- South"Campo dei fiori, Rome" (1:20) -- West "Atlantis" (1:18) / Robert Ashley.

LCCN

7559792892

OCLC

• ocm28082518
• 28082518

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries