Lovely Music, Ltd.

05/10/2024

Foreign Experiences!
Friday 5/10 and Saturday 5/11
roulette.org

04/21/2024

I was asked to curate an hour of music for DUBLAB, the Los Angeles-based, community-supported internet radio.
https://www.dublab.com/schedule/7hr83lhd1a7vrn90vm14jg9bjg_20240422T160000Z/christeeeene-wmimi-johnsoncherry-custard
You can tune in at noon on Monday, or wait until it's archived. I chose selections from the Lovely catalog that could stand alone and were of shorter duration, and because Roulette is presenting FOREIGN EXPERIENCES next month, went heavy on Ashley: Improvement, Now Eleanor's Idea, Dust, Celestial Excursions. https://roulette.org/artist/robert-ashley-foreign-experiences/

dublab is a non-profit, radio station dedicated to the growth of music, arts, and culture.

04/07/2024

Don't miss the new production of Ashley's 1994 opera coming to Roulette in May! Featuring the amazing performers who recreated "Improvement" and "eL/Aficionado."
https://roulette.org/artist/robert-ashley-foreign-experiences/

02/13/2024

The Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg will screen Robert Ashley's PERFECT LIVES!
Complete 7-episode opera on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 5 p.m. with Q&A with John Sanborn, Dean Winkler and Mimi Johnson.
Episodes 1-3 on February 19 & 27; Episodes 4-7 on February 20 & 28. Check website for times.

https://www.spectacletheater.com/perfect-lives/

05/31/2023

https://roulette.org/event/perfect-lives-screening/

Special screening of Robert Ashley’s opera for television PERFECT LIVES; a co-production of Roulette Intermedium and Performing Artservices

12/25/2020

About "Blue" Gene from Julian Cowley at The Wire:

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/blue-gene-tyranny-1945-2020?fbclid=IwAR3QwMhSsC9QPXIByB2wXnjbjwjhOxdxJZ5Bojd46ps-m4gl01PiOgd9L4I

The Wire 's Julian Cowley looks back at the life, work and unseen worlds of the experimental composer, who has died at the age of 75

12/24/2020

"Blue" Gene Tyranny obituary by Steve Smith in the NY Times.

A creator of modern music as a teenager, he later juggled a breezy pop sensibility with conceptual rigor. He was an important collaborator with the composer Robert Ashley.

10/15/2020

RELEASED TODAY: OCTOBER 16, 2020
A 1995 recording of ROBERT ASHLEY'S opera FOREIGN EXPERIENCES, featuring his famous "band" including Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Marghreta Cordero, Tom Hamilton, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara and Amy X Neuburg.
Get it from Forced Exposure.

https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ashley-robert-foreign-experiences-cd/LCD.5003CD.html

01/07/2020

Robert Ashley's opera "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)" has been released as a double CD package. Available from Forced Exposure. https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ashley-robert-improvement-don-leaves-linda-2cd/LCD.5002CD.html