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01. ROBERT ASHLEY - In Sara Mencken Christ and Beethoven there were men and women
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ARTIST
ASHLEY, ROBERT
TITLE
In Sara, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Men And Women
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
CRAMPS
CATALOG #
CRS 103CD
CRS 103CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
4/1/2015
2002 reissue; originally released in 1974 as number three in the
Nova Musicha
series.
Robert Ashley
's minimal masterpiece centered on
John Barton Wolgamot
's experimental book-length poem "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women." It consists of one sentence repeated over and over, and the only changes from sentence to sentence are that different names are inserted -- "In their very truly great manners of
Jesus Christ
very heroically
Geoffrey Chaucer
,
Rupert Brooke
. . ." Ashley's fascinating liner notes to this album offer a very reasonable interpretation of the very bizarre text. And the music? It's wonderful -- Ashley and
Paul DeMarinis
's electronics bubble in the background, and Wolgamot's words sound beautiful when read by Ashley, who delivers the text in his usual
sprechstimme
-on-downers style.
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