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Perfect lives : an opera

Author: Robert Ashley
Publisher: Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, ©2011.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Perfect Lives is a seemingly endless and seamless dreamscape of the musicality of the spoken word....It floats in my head like a memorable, ever-changing dream." Spalding Grey
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Genre/Form: Librettos
Named Person: Robert Ashley
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Ashley
ISBN: 9781564786845 1564786846
OCLC Number: 711051699
Notes: "Also includes selections from a series of talks at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in 1989"--Preface.
Description: xxv, 187 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents: Foreword --
Preface --
Synopsis --
Perfect lives. The park : (privacy rules) ; The supermarket : (famous people) ; The bank : (victimless crime) ; The bar : (differences) ; The living room : (the solutions) ; The church : (after the fact) ; The backyard : (t' be continued) --
Robert Ashley talks about Perfect lives.
Other Titles: Perfect lives (Libretto)
Responsibility: Robert Ashley.

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