ROBERT ASHLEY: PERFECT LIVES MANHATTAN
Date: November 6, 2011
Time: 11:00 am
Sunday, November 6, 2011
11:00am — 11:30pm
Throughout Lower Manhattan at various locations: MAP coming soon.
FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY
Members of thingNY and the groups Why Lie? and the Panoply Performance Laboratory have collaborated as a newly formed collective called VARISPEED to remake Robert Ashley’s seminal television opera, Perfect Lives. Presented by PERFORMA ’11, each episode has been newly arranged by a member of the group. These arrangements feature fresh takes on instrumentation, amplification, and melodic content, while still maintaining the formal, metric, and chordal frameworks of the originals. Perfect Lives Manhattan is not a imitative interpretation of Ashley’s Perfect Lives, but instead seeks to reanimate Ashley’s material in new ways, stemming from the Varispeed members’ own individual relationships with the piece.
Arranged and performed by Gelsey Bell, Paul Pinto, Brian McCorkle, Dave Ruder and Aliza Simons.
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