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Open Music performs a new arrangement of three episodes from Robert Ashley’s legendary TV Opera Perfect Lives. Ashley’s Opera, first aired on the UK’s Channel 4 in 1983, is a trance-like tale of American life told in music, words, and film – “these are songs about the corn belt, some of the people in it, or on it.” Open Music, an experimental music collective from central Pennsylvania, brings their unique sound, colloquial style, and eclectic instrumentation (voices, percussion, bass, dulcimer, synthesizer, harmonium and flute) to bear on new original arrangements of the opera’s first, third and seventh episodes (“The Park: Privacy Rules”, “The Bank: Victimless Crime”, “The Backyard: T’be Continued”).
Perfect Lives is a true gem of 20th century American art, and it is unlike anything to which it could possibly be compared. Opportunities to see it live are rare to say the least, and Open Music is excited, and grateful to the Ashley estate, to have the opportunity to bring this visionary epic to life on multiple stages in the northeast this fall.
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Fidget, 1714 N Mascher St,Philadelphia,PA,United States
