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Ashley, Robert

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(1930- ), Ann Arbor, Michigan. Picture, biography, discography, video and film, books, compositions, bibliography, and productions.
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Robert Ashley  American contemporary music, holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects. His recorded works are acknowledged classics of language in a musical setting....
http://www.lovely.com/bios/ashley.html

Biography and archived compositions.
http://www.uakron.edu/ssma/composers/Ashley.shtml

Interview by Theresa Stern.
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Robert Ashley interview- Perfect Sound Forever  American operas for television. Other artists such as Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson and John Adams have brought their theatrical work to the stage for years but none of them have...
http://www.furious.com/perfect/robertashley.html

Interview with the composer.
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Thomas Moore's Robert Ashley Interview  Ashley in conversation with Thomas Moore Robert Ashley and I spoke on 25 October 1981 in Washington, D.C. the morning after a performance of parts 4 through 7 of his...
http://research.umbc.edu/~tmoore/ashley.html

Essay on the "opera" Perfect Lives.
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James Wierzbicki Robert Ashley  C and irrational entertainment is how Samuel Johnson so famously defined opera in his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. Opera is a play representing life in another world, whose...
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jameswierzbicki/ashley.htm