Atalanta (Acts Of God)

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“Composer Robert Ashley’s Atalanta (Acts of God) is the first instalment in a trilogy of “operas” (Ashley prefers the term “narrative works,” which seems a more accurate description) completed by Perfect Lives and Now Eleanor’s Idea. The extensive set up behind this 133-minute-long work is based on the Greek legend of Atalanta, with three twentieth century artists — painter Max Ernst, Willard Reynolds (a storyteller and relative of Ashley’s), and jazz pianist Bud Powell — serving as her “suitors.” Nonetheless, there really is no story told, and the time is taken up mainly with free association rambling written by Ashley, delivered by him with help from his associates in this project, Blue Gene Tyranny, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, and others.”