Robert Ashley

Index

147 index 1750 Arch, 77–78 Adams, John: The Death of Klinghoffer, 127; Nixon in China, 127 American Composers Orchestra, 111 AMM, 32 Ammons, Albert, 10 Ann Arbor, 7–8, 22 Aranovsky, Mark, 109 Arch Ensemble, 77–78 art of memory (Bruno), xi, 88–89, 94, 98 Ashley, Alvah J. (grandfather), 8, 135 (chap. 2, n. 3) Ashley, Alvah J. “Cy” (uncle), 8, 9 Ashley, Diane (sister), 9, 12 Ashley, Mary (née Tsaltas, first wife), 17, 18, 27, 43, 45, 48, 78 Ashley, Robert: army experience, 17–18; conception of opera, 1–2, 57–61. See also entries for specific works Ashley, Sam (son), 18, 60, 78, 80, 87, 97, 113, 115, 118, 121, 125–26 Ashley, Sarah (grandmother), 8 Ashley, Ward J. (father), 8, 9–10, 15 Atalanta (Ashley), x, 4, 5, 8, 57, 58, 61, 77–86, 87, 99 Austin, Larry, 34 Automatic Writing (Ashley), 53, 55–56 Babbitt, Milton, 24 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 4, 14–15; Musical Offering, 89 Bassett, Leslie, 14, 21 Beckett, Samuel, 123 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 4 Behrman, David, 28–29, 51–52, 54; Runthrough , 29 Berg, Alban, 14; Chamber Concerto, 16–17; Violin Concerto, 21 Berio, Luciano, 22, 26 Berlioz, Hector, 114 Bertoni, Nick, 47, 100, 124 Bhatt, Krishna, 55 Bischoff, John, 48 Bloomberg, (Mayor) David, 116 Bob Wills Band, “Milk Cow Blues,” 122 Borkin, Harold, 20 Bottleman, The (Ashley), 26, 30, 116 Boulez, Pierre, 14, 24, 77 Brickman, Lawrence, 80 Bruno, Giordano, xi, 64, 88–89, 92–94, 96, 101, 121, 122 Buckner, Thomas: Ashley commissioned by, 111–12, 113; joins Ashley’s ensemble, 77–78; operas performed, 80–83, 87–88, 96–97, 115, 117, 118, 121, 125 Budd, Harold, 32 Cacioppo, George, 21, 22 Cage, John, x, 5, 22, 24, 28, 32, 43, 50, 61; 4'33", 24; Indeterminacy, 22; The Seasons, 111 Cao, Van, 113 Castaneda, Carlos, 100–101 Celestial Excursions (Ashley), x, 13, 54, 116, 121–24 r o b e r t a s h l e y | Index 148 Christopher Columbus Crosses to the New World . . . (Ashley). See Piano Sonata (Ashley, 1959) Cicero, 114 Cohen, Milton, 20 Combination Wedding and Funeral (Ashley ), 72 Complete with Heat (Ashley), 32 conceptualism, 24–25 Concrete (Ashley), 5, 15, 116, 124–26 Conlon, Anne Ward (sister), 9, 10, 13 Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 46 Cope, David, ix David, Hans T., 14–15, 89 Davies, Dennis Russell, 114 Davies, Robertson, 4 DeMarinis, Paul, 48, 49, 53 DeMille, Richard, 100 Details (Ashley), 35–36 Dust (Ashley), x, 5, 8, 12–13, 18, 72, 99, 116–21 eL/Aficionado (Ashley), 60, 96–99, 103, 104, 110, 111, 113 Eliot, T. S., 15 Ellington, Duke, 3 Ensemble MAE, 111, 112, 114–15, 126 Entrance, The (Ashley), 38 Ernst, Max, 50, 79; Une Semaine de Bonté, 85 Fancy Free (It’s There) (Ashley), 41–42, 48 Farley, Bill, 51 Fast Forward, 48 Feldman, Morton, 24–25, 32, 36, 38, 48 Finney, Ross Lee, 14, 18–19, 20, 136 n. 29 Fishburne, Mary S., 15 Fitzgerald, Kit, 76 Fives (Ashley), 36 Fluxus, 24 Foreign Experiences (Ashley), 1, 5, 8, 20, 47, 54, 59–61, 83, 99–104, 113 Fourth of July, The (Ashley), 26, 30, 36 Fox, The (Ashley), 29–30 Gena, Peter, x, 55 Gerhard, Roberto, 20–22; Collages (Symphony No. 3), 22 Glass, Philip, 51–52; Akhnaten, 127; Einstein on the Beach, 51, 127; Satyagraha, 127; The Voyage, 127 Gordon, Peter, 65, 76 Gurdjieff, George, 124 Hamilton, Tom, 82, 90, 121, 125 Hariton, Monya, 96 Hariton, Theodore (Ted), 9 Harrison, Lou, 47, 111 Haubenstock-Ramati, Roman, 32 Held, Barbara, 110–11 Hesiod, 2 Hidden Similarities (Ashley), 111, 126 Hitchcock, H. Wiley, 15, 31 Holm-Hudson, Kevin, 63–64, 139 (chap. 5, n. 7) Homer, 2 How Can I Tell the Difference? (Ashley), 50 Humbert, Jacqueline: joins Ashley’s ensemble , 78; operas performed, 60, 80–85, 87, 97, 113, 115, 117, 118, 124, 125 Hunt, Jerry, x Ideas from the Church (Ashley), 103–4 “Immortality Songs, The” (Ashley), 110 Improvement: Don Leaves Linda (Ashley), x, 5, 6, 60, 61, 75, 90–96, 99, 101–2, 110 in memoriam . . . CRAZY HORSE (symphony ) (Ashley), x, 32, 33–35, 60 in memoriam . . . ESTEBAN GOMEZ (quartet) (Ashley), 32, 33–35 in memoriam . . . JOHN SMITH (concerto) (Ashley), 32, 33–34 in memoriam . . . KIT CARSON (opera) (Ashley), 33–34, 104 In Sara, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (Ashley), 48–50 Ives, Burl, 29 Ives, Charles, 127 Jacobs, Paul, 26 Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the...