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Improvement

Title
  1. Improvement / [music and libretto by] Robert Ashley.
Published by
  1. New York, N.Y. : Elektra Nonesuch, [1992], ℗1992.
Author
  1. Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014

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Additional authors
  1. Humbert, Jacqueline, 1952-
  2. Buckner, Thomas, 1941-
  3. La Barbara, Joan, 1947-
  4. Ashley, Sam
  5. Klein, Adam, 1960-
  6. Neuburg, Amy X, 1962-
  7. Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014
Description
  1. 2 audio discs (89 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform title
  1. Now Eleanor's idea. Improvement
Alternative title
  1. Now Eleanor's idea. Improvement
  2. Don leaves Linda
Subject
  1. Television operas
  2. Operas
  3. Electronic music
  4. Opéras
  5. Musique électronique
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. "An opera for television"--Container.
  2. Episode 1 in a quartet of operas for television entitled: Now Eleanor's idea.
  3. Subtitle on container: Don leaves Linda.
  4. Compact discs.
  5. Program notes, synopsis, and libretto ([40] p.)--laid in container.
Credits (note)
  1. David Rosenboom, Robert Ashley: producers ; David Bither: executive producer ; Tom Erbe: engineer.
Performer (note)
  1. 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)
  1. "Voices were recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California."