Sc.11: Sanctuary / Ruby Ascends
Series: Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa)
From: Christian Baskous
Length: 00:09:29
Also in the Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa (fulgor y muerte de Porfirio Rubirosa) series
Sc.09: Constantinople
(00:02:29)
From: Christian Baskous
Porfirio Rubirosa Visits the Holy City of Byzantium
Sc.06: Woody Hits the Road (the YMCA)
(00:05:13)
From: Christian Baskous
Woody Mezmer visits the YMCA in Chicopee, Mass.
Sc.05: The Road to New Rome
(00:02:10)
From: Christian Baskous
Porfirio Rubirosa awakens in the bottom of a leaky boat...
Sc.04: Wood's Hole - A Phonecall
(00:01:06)
From: Christian Baskous
A message from a phonebooth in Anatolia...
Sc.03: The Sewers of Paris
(00:01:43)
From: Christian Baskous
Porfirio Rubirosa makes a watery passage through the Paris sewer.
Sc.02: At the Lab
(00:01:56)
From: Christian Baskous
Crisis in Wood's Hole... Woody sets out on his adventure...
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Piece Description
Somewhere in the rainy Northwest Woody Mezmer takes sanctuary in a humble room at the YMCA... pauses to reflect on his struggles, slips into a fitful sleep. Porfirio Rubirosa arrives downstairs, bearing a legacy for Woody: his "Testamento", one of the Cien Canciones y Versos Dubiosos he composed long ago in the flowering of his own youth. Rubi ascends to heaven, welcomed by the many thousands of women he satisfied in the course of his career as a famous lover.
Broadcast History
This piece played on WOMR in fall of 2003 and since then on many other community, freeform and college stations in the U.S. and Canada. It has been serialized on WBAI, KPFA and WUSM and featured on other stations too numerous to mention.
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