AMG plot
It makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero’s Books) would be attracted to a project such as 4 American Composers, a 1983 British television special profiling John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Robert Ashley, four U.S. musical artists who haven’t been content simply to entertain, but feel compelled to “push the envelope” of music.

Meredith Monk episode chronicles the career of the award-winning artist, a composer and singer who also works in film and dance. Monk is the fourth generation in her family to become a singer, and pioneered “extended vocal technique.” Greenaway here provides viewers with performance sequences from Monk’s multimedia pieces “Dolman Music,” “Travelling,” “Ellis Island,” and others.

Robert Ashley episode chronicles the work and career of the distinguished composer , an innovator of opera who has worked to make it American in subject matter and idiom, writing opera for television. Greenaway here provides viewers with performances excerpted from Ashley’s seven-part television opera Perfect Lives. The opera was co-produced by Britain’s Channel Four television network in August of 1983.

Philip Glass episode chronicles the career of the award-winning artist , a composer trained in mathematics and philosophy, who in his twenties had a musical epiphany when he discovered the techniques of Indian music while transcribing Ravi Shankar’s music for a French filmmaker. Glass eventually applied techniques from India, North Africa, and the Himalayas to his seminal work. Greenaway here provides viewers with excerpts from performances of Glass’ compositions

John Cage episode centers on a concert performed in England on Cage’s 70th birthday. Featured are partial performances (sometimes overlapping) of a number of pieces, including “Roaratorio” (with Cage as narrator), “Forever and Sunsmell,” “Double Music,” and others. Highlights include a performance by Marcel Duchamp and interview commentary by Cage and others.

Four American Composers Meredith Monk 1983 PAL DVD DD2.0 x264-nosferato.mkv

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Runtime: 	52 min 9 s
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https://nitro.download/view/10AE6D89F3EB278/Four_American_Composers_John_Cage_1983_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-nosferato.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/4294D722E9E783E/Four_American_Composers_Meredith_Monk_1983_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-nosferato.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/15068E940B7261A/Four_American_Composers_Phillip_Glass_1983_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-nosferato.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/0449690446F2CD7/Four_American_Composers_Robert_Ashley_1983_PAL_DVD_DD2.0_x264-nosferato.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:French

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AMG plot
It makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero’s Books) would be attracted to a project such as 4 American Composers, a 1983 British television special profiling John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Robert Ashley, four U.S. musical artists who haven’t been content simply to entertain, but feel compelled to “push the envelope” of music.

Peter Greenaway - John Cage.avi

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Container:	AVI
Runtime:	54mn 16s
Size:	600 MiB
Video
Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	592x448
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 152 Kbps
Audio
2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/0E47BA5EC630502/Peter_Greenaway_-_John_Cage.avi
https://nitro.download/view/943AF3FB3CAC6F1/Peter_Greenaway_-_Meredith_Monk.avi
https://nitro.download/view/7C0C0F00CEB40AC/Peter_Greenaway_-_Philip_Glass.avi
https://nitro.download/view/8B1ABE77A276087/Peter_Greenaway_-_Robert_Ashley.avi
https://nitro.download/view/AB88C87BA00D544/four.zip

Language(s):English
Subtitles:French

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An opera for television by Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley’s television opera “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, et al, in the American Midwest. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century.

Perfect Lives has been called “the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s.” At its center is the hypnotic voice of Robert Ashley. His continuous song narrates the events of the story and describes a 1980’s update of the mythology of small town America. Perfect Lives is populated with myriad characters revolving around two musicians — “R”, the singer of myth and legend, and his friend, Buddy, “The World’s Greatest Piano Player”. They have come to a small town in the Midwest to entertain at the Perfect Lives Lounge. As Robert Ashley describes in the opera synopsis, “they fall in with two locals to commit the perfect crime, a metaphor for something philosophical: in this case, to remove a sizable about of money from The Bank for one day (and one day only) and let the whole world know that it was missing.”

The eloping couple, Ed and Gwyn, the old people at the home, the sheriff and his wife (Will and Ida) who finally unravel the mystery, and Isolde who watches the celebration of the changing of the light at sundown from the doorway of her mother’s house are some of the characters who journey through the seven episodes of the opera.

Derived from a colloquial idiom, Perfect Lives transforms familiar material into an elaborate metaphor for the rebirth of the human soul. It has been called a comic opera about reincarnation.

https://nitro.download/view/FF226CC94F7291B/01.The_Park_(Privacy_Rules).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/90B447CDA4D376B/02.The_Supermarket_(Famous_People).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/256C6F01960F283/03.The_Bank_(Victimless_Crime).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/BDDEC41B6C61394/04.The_Bar_(Differences).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/8ABAF7371A9958F/05.The_Living_Room_(The_Solutions).mkv https://nitro.download/view/86ABE8981C8D69C/06.The_Church_(After_The_Fact).mkv https://nitro.download/view/8F6E863E491E380/07.The_Backyard_(T’_Be_Continued).mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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