ROBERT ASHLEY : Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

オペラ「ナウ・エレノアの考え」四部作のひとつで、ノンサッチからのリリースでもおなじみImprovement (Don Leaves Linda) (1985年)です。
2018年から2019年に新しいキャストでリバイバル公演され、これはそのライブ盤です。
ジョン・バニヤンの「天路歴程」のような寓意物語。
Tom Hamiltonによるライブプロセッシングとマスタリング！



Tracklist
1-1 The Argument (Prelude) 1:30
1-2 Sunset at the Turnoff (Scene 1) 1:17
1-3 The Airline Ticket Counter (Scene 2) 1:30
1-4 The Correspondences Text (Scene 3) 2:57
1-5 The Ride to Town (Scene 4) 6:37
1-6 The Airline Ticket Counter (Scene 5) 1:30
1-7 The Indifference Text (Scene 6) 4:35
1-8 Back Home... (Scene 7) 2:02
1-9 Mr. George Payne (Scene 8) 2:15
1-10 The Contents of Her Purse (Scene 9) 10:22
1-11 Supper with Mr. Payne's Mother (Scene 10) 3:45
1-12 Golf Left-Handed (Scene 11) 4:07
1-13 A Moment (Very Late)... (Scene 12) 1:39
2-1 The Big City (Scene 13) 4:37
2-2 The Doctor (Scene 14) 8:13
2-3 The Good Life (Scene 15) 5:09
2-4 Trouble (Scene 16) 4:00
2-5 A Place in the Country (Scene 17) 3:06
2-6 Happiness, Prosperity and Forgetfulness (Scene 18) 8:44
2-7 The Bridge Game (Scene 19) 5:02
2-8 North (Berlin/A Tango) (Scene 20) 2:03
2-9 East (River Rouge) (Scene 21) 0:30
2-10 South (Campo Dei Fiori, Rome) (Scene 22) 1:40
2-11 West (Atlantis) (Scene 23) 1:09

Credits
Composed By ? Robert Ashley
Lighting Director ? David Moodey
Music Director, Mixed By, Recorded By ? Tom Hamilton
Producer ? Mimi Johnson
Recorded By ? Eric Sherman
Stage Manager ? Annie Arthur
Voice [Don, Mr. Payne, Linda's Companion] ? Brian McCorkle
Voice [Junior, Jr.] ? Paul Pinto
Voice [Linda] ? Gelsey Bell
Voice [Mr. Payne's Mother] ? Amirtha Kidambi
Voice [Narrator I] ? Robert Ashley
Voice [Narrator II] ? Aliza Simons, Amirtha Kidambi
Voice [Now Eleanor] ? Aliza Simons
Voice [The Doctor] ? Dave Ruder

Notes
Act II opens with a song on the radio, "Tarzan," with voices recorded by Sam Ashley during a trip to South America and the Caribbean. The singers were from the Venezuelan Sanuma and Ye-kuana tribes, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.