Events

AMERICAN OPERA: The Work of ROBERT ASHLEY

A THREE-DAY CELEBRATION

MARCH 2, 3 & 4, 2018

Friday, March 2, 2018

8:00 p.m. – Longtime Robert Ashley collaborator, baritone Thomas Buckner, performs works written for him: The Producer Speaks (featuring Neely Bruce on Piano), Tract, and The Mystery of the River (arr. Tom Hamilton), plus a new work written for this celebration by Alvin Lucier entitled, Litany.

CFA Crowell Concert Hall
50 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown

Saturday, March 3, 2018

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – “Friends and collaborators tell stories about touring and working with Bob”
David Behrman, Tom Buckner, Alvin Lucier

Russell House
350 High Street, Middletown

1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Talks about Robert Ashley’s life and work, by Kyle Gann,
Tom Hamilton, and Alex Waterman.

Russell House
350 High Street, Middletown

Program order t.b.d.

8:00 p.m. – Performance: Crash

Crash is the last opera written by American maverick Robert Ashley who, throughout his five-decade career, radically redefined the operatic genre. Crash premiered to sold-out houses at the Whitney Museum Biennial in April 2014, just one month after the composer's death, and was given additional performances the next year at Roulette. The performance will feature voices Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder and Aliza Simons. Music director, Tom Hamilton. Photos by Philip Makanna.

“Openly autobiographical, revealing, instantly lovable.” -- Steve Smith, New York Times

CFA Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
287 Washington Terrace, Middletown

Sunday, March 4, 2018

1:00 p.m. SHARP – “The Bank”, Episode III of Perfect lives
Varispeed: Gelsey Bell, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons

Movement House
200 High Street, Middletown

ADMISSION IS FREE TO ALL EVENTS

Mimi Johnson, updated 2/19/2018
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