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A distinguished figure in American contemporary music, Robert Ashley holds an
international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and
multi-disciplinary projects. In the mid 1960s Ashley founded the Sonic Arts
Union with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman, and later directed the
Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. His recorded works are acknowledged
classics of language in a musical setting, and he is best known for his epic
opera-for-television, Perfect Lives, which is centered around Ashley’s hypnotic
voice. Distinctly original in style, and distinctly American in their subject
matter and in their use of American language, Robert Ashley’s operas are “so
vast in their vision that they are comparable only to Wagner’s Ring cycle or
Stockhausen’s seven-evening Licht cycle. In form and content, in musical, vocal,
literary and media technique, they are, however, c...
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