Robert Ashley & Walter Marchetti - October 25, 2001. Merkin Concert Hall NYC

This double LP documents a very special and significant live event, held in 2001 at the Merkin Hall in NYC, where Robert Ashley chose the Italian composer Walter Marchetti to perform some pieces together.
Choose Records makes now available five compositions of that live act: "Nei Mari Del Sud. Musica In Secca" (as excerpt of the same piece published by Alga Marghen) and a variation of “De Musicorum Infelicitate”, both performed by Marchetti.
The other pieces are executed by Ashley: "Yes, But Is It Edible?" (with the participation of the composer Thomas Buckner), “Practical Anarchism” (previously issued as a text and here transposed in music), "Musica Per Un Bicchiere Non Molto Grande" (conceived by Marchetti).
A unique and unrepeatable chance to live again that night of October 25th, 2001.

Label: Choose Records
Cat. #: Choose11LP
Format: 2xLP
Release date: 2007
Notes: edition of 300 copies

Tracklisting:

A1 - Walter Marchetti - Nei Mari Del Sud. Musica In Secca (25:00)
B1 - Walter Marchetti - De Musicorum Infelicitate Una Variazione Dolente (06:13)
C1 - Robert Ashley - Yes, But Is It Edible? (27:30)
D1 - Robert Ashley - Practical Anarchism (08:20)
D2 - Walter Marchetti - Musica Per Un Bicchiere Non Molto Grande (02:40)

Other posts on Robert Ashley:

• Robert Ashley - Now Eleanor's Idea (here)
• Peter Greenaway - Four American Composers: Robert Ashley (here)

Links:
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Robert Ashley - Now Eleanor's Idea

Robert Ashley's Now Eleanor's Idea is a quartet of short operas based on the notion of a sequence of events seen from four, different points of view. At the same time, each opera is an allegory, like Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, for an individual's self-realization within the context of a major religion found in the United States.
Improvement takes its imagery and plot from Judaism, Foreign Experiences from Pentecostal Evangelism, eL/Aficionado from Corporate Mysticism, and Now Eleanor's Idea from (Spanish) Catholicism.

The inspiration for these works came specifically from four sources: the work of the historian, Frances A. Yates (1900-1983), whose specialty of interests included the influence of Kabbalistic mysticism on the birth of modernism and scientific philosophy in Italy in the 16th century (as a result of the expulsion of Jews from Spain during the Inquisition); the writings of Carlos Castaneda (and the arguments about him as a writer and about the intentions of his work).

Label: Lovely Music
Cat. #:
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
1-01 - Change (22:04)
1-02 - The Miracle Of Cars (22:03)
2-01 - Questions and Answers (21:58)
2-02 - The Song (22:26)

Links:
Robert Ashley
Lovely Music