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Robert Ashley - Improvement

Label:

Nonesuch

Catalog#:

79289-2

Format:

2 x CD, Album

Country:

Released:

1992

Genre:

Classical, Electronic, Stage & Screen

Style:

Contemporary, Experimental

Tracklist

	Act I (44:00)
1-1	The Argument (Prelude)	1:29
1-2	Sunset At The Turnoff (Scene 1)	1:08
1-3	The Airline Ticket Counter (Scene 2)	1:40
1-4	The Correspondences Text (Scene 3)	2:42
1-5	The Ride To Town (Scene 4)	6:38
1-6	The Airline Ticket Counter (Scene 5)	1:44
1-7	The Indifference Text (Scene 6)	4:36
1-8	Back Home (Scene 7)	2:01
1-9	Mr. George Payne (Scene 8)	2:09
1-10	The Contents Of Her Purse (Scene 9)	10:14
1-11	Supper With Mr. Payne's Mother (Scene 10)	4:40
1-12	Golf Left-Handed (Scene 11)	3:27
1-13	A Moment (Very Late)... (Scene 12)	1:32
	Act II (44:05)
2-1	The Big City (Scene 13)	0:53
2-2	Tarzan (Scene 13)	3:03
	Recorded By, Producer - Sam Ashley
2-3	The Big City (Continued) (Scene 13)	0:40
2-4	The Doctor (Scene 14)	3:53
2-5	The Offering Of Images (Scene 14)	4:20
2-6	The Good Life (Scene 15)	5:10
2-7	Trouble (Scene 16)	0:27
2-8	The Good Life (Continued) (Scene 16)	0:13
2-9	Trouble (Continued) (Scene 16)	2:40
2-10	The Good Life (Continued) (Scene 16)	0:40
2-11	A Place In The Country (Scene 17)	2:46
2-12	Happiness, Prosperity And Forgetfulness (Scene 18)	9:06
2-13	The Bridge Game (Scene 19)	5:03
2-14	North (Berlin / A Tango) (Scene 20)	2:03
2-15	East (River Rouge) (Scene 21)	0:30
2-16	South (Campo Dei Fiori, Rome) (Scene 22)	1:20
2-17	West (Atlantis) (Scene 23)	1:18

Credits

Artwork By [Design] - James Victore
Composed By, Lyrics By [Libretto], Producer - Robert Ashley
Engineer - Josef Kucera
Executive Producer - David Bither (2)
Mastered By [Digital Mastering], Edited By [Digital Editing] - Allan Tucker
Mixed By [Final Mix], Engineer [Computer Engineer For Final Mix] - Tom Hamilton (3)
Mixed By [Voices & Rhythm Orchestra] - Tom Erbe (tracks: 1-2 to 1-8, 1-10, 1-12, 1-13) , Tom Hamilton (3) (tracks: 1-1, 1-9, 1-11, 2-1 to 2-17)
Narrator [The Narrator] - Robert Ashley
Photography [Cover Photograph] - Robert Cavalli
Producer - David Rosenboom
Programmed By [Additional Orchestra Parts] - Robert Ashley (tracks: 2-1 to 2-17) , Sam Ashley (tracks: 1-1 to 1-13) , Tom Hamilton (3) (tracks: 2-1 to 2-17)
Recorded By [Voices], Engineer [Computer Engineer For Voices] - Tom Erbe
Voice [Don, Mr. Payne, Linda's Companion] - Thomas Buckner
Voice [Junior, Jr.] - Sam Ashley
Voice [Mr. Payne's Mother] - Amy X Neuberg
Voice [Now Eleanor] - Joan La Barbara
Voice [The Doctor] - Adam Klein

Notes

Improvement is subtitled Don Leaves Linda.

Voices were recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California. (No dates mentioned.)

Final mixing was done at 10 Beach Street, New York, NY. (No dates mentioned.)

The singers from the Sanuma and Ye-kuana (verses 1 and 5) were recorded near their homes on the Rio Paragua in Venezuela. The singers from the Dominican Republic (verse 2) were recorded in Port Au Prince, Haiti. The Sanuma, "Alehandro" (his Spanish name), is a master singer of his village. The Ye-kuana singer Matias Fortunato helped in directing the Sanuma and Ye-kuana singers.

the quartet of operas, "Now Eleanor's Idea", which includes "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)" and "eL/Aficionado", was written and developed with the assistance of grants from The Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts' Opera Musical Theater Program. Preliminary rehearsals were made possible by a workshop grant from the National Institute for Music Theater.

This is an Elektra/Nonesuch release.

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