The significance of Robert Ashley’s life and work continues. Here Thomas Buckner performs “When Famous Last Words Fail You” at Tulkinnanvaraista in Helsinki. This piece was originally scored for voice, chorus and orchestra and premiered at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra on December 7, 1997.
Robert Ashley RIP
Robert Ashley died on March 3, 2014. We would like to share with you a video featuring an interview of Bob Ashley discussing the new production of “The Old Man Lives in Concrete” presented at Roulette on April 25, 2012. Robert Ashley on The Old Man Lives In Concrete (w/ Richard Carrick) from Mimi Johnson […]
Bonnie Wright's photos from Robert Ashley's THE OLD MAN LIVES IN CONCRETE
Bonnie Wright of Henceforth Records shares some photos and thoughts on April’s 4-day run of Robert Ashley’s latest opera, THE OLD MAN LIVES IN CONCRETE! Click Here to see her full blog post!
Capital New York Review: Robert Ashley
by Seth Colter Walls “A Presentation of Work From Radical Composer Robert Ashley Shows An Oeuvre In Flux” Inimitable art has a way of inoculating itself from any critical approach that relies on analogy. Potentially evocative points of reference can seem halfway correct though also not quite right. When it comes to the radical American […]
New York Times Review: Robert Ashley
by Steve Smith “Layered Dialogues on Effects of Old Age” (go to original link/article) Music history is filled with candles that burned bright and fast. Some composers lived too short a life: Mozartand Schubert, Berg and Webern. Others stopped creating after a productive prime, like Rossini and Sibelius. But longevity can have its benefits for those who […]
New York Times Review: Robert Ashley’s “Concrete”
by Steve Smith “An Opera Full of Secrets From a Master of the Opaque” Robert Ashley’s Concrete The gambler’s game is one of steely nerves, patience and sometimes sleight of hand. Watch a gambler at the card table, and you might never notice anything out of the ordinary, apart from freakish runs of good fortune. […]