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Roulette Intermedium 2024 Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Foreign Experiences’

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(Photo: Whitney Browne) Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium presented Robert Ashley’s “Foreign Experiences” (1994) on Saturday, May 11th, 2024 to an audience full of familiar faces in appreciation of avant-garde and experimental music. This work is part of Ashley’s opera tetralogy, “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” which also includes “Improvement (Don Leaves Linda),” “eL/Aficionado” and the stand-alone opera, “Now Eleanor’s Idea.” I have been {…}

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Roulette to Present ‘Foreign Experiences’

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Brooklyn-based Roulette is set to present Robert Ashley’s “Foreign Experiences” starting on May 9. The three-performance run, which comes to a close on May 11, will be the first full performance of the opera since 1995. The work is part of Ashley’s operatic tetralogy “Now Eleanor,” which dates from the early 1990s. The work follows Don who leaves the Midwest {…}

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Roulette Announces 45th Spring Season

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Roulette, a space for promotion and presentation of contemporary experimental performing arts in Brooklyn has announced its 45th spring season. For the purposes of this article only classical vocal events are included. Lila Meretzky’s “Songs at Night” large-scale new song cycle of the poems of Yiddish-language poet Anna Margolin makes its world premiere. Shelley Washington’s “A Kind of Lung” and {…}

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NYC’s The Kitchen 2019 Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)’

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Before experiencing Robert Ashley’s “Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)” live for the first time, one can imagine that Ashley wants listeners to be changed in some way by what he wrote in 1990. Whether one’s evolution involves the understanding of new perspectives of cultural awareness or the witnessing of new opera ideals in a live setting, Ashley intentionally leaves no stone {…}

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The Kitchen To Present Robert Ashley’s ‘Improvement’

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The Kitchen is pleased to present the late composer Robert Ashley’s newly reconstructed 1985 opera “Improvement (Don Leaves Linda).” The opera, which was written in 1985 and first performed in 1991, follows the adventures of its protagonist Linda, whose travels and romances can be interpreted as attempts at assimilation and cultural cross-pollination, with both success and rejection. “Improvement” is set {…}