OVERTURE from: Peter Hübners Opera "Song of Life" Musical Epos in three Acts |
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Hymns
of the Night |
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A huge, branching,
complex scaffold whose many layers linked by ladders, _bridges and dangerous
paths as well as ravines and other obstacles seem to be laboriously
organised. People, animals
and machines are incessantly busy repairing, improving, as well as sabotaging
and destroying this enormous tangle compressed of many different kinds
of material. On the inside
of this world-scaffold we can see the manifold structure of the human
existence, in its tragedy and in its greatness. Before our eyes we see
a world of what will be and what was: the world as yesterday
today tomorrow, human growth, human
degeneration incorporating individuals, families and whole tribal
groups. Here, one
person is living in the Stone Age, his neighbour in the heyday of religious
and philosophical striving, a third is devoting himself entirely to
romanticism based on technology and its dependent ideology. Some are
beginning to turn towards lifes natural laws of harmony. Here, the
human mind and human deeds are shown in parallel to human impotence
and failure. This scene
captures all that mankind, in the time of darkness, risked his life
for, worked and strived for; here, man reveals his utmost ignorance
of the meaning of life: all captured in the display of everyday life
in that world. Here, however,
one can already see the awakening of those natural powers which strengthen
mans harmony within himself and with his environment. And the entire
events are maintained, checked and corrected during the change: ennobled,
by a computer standing in the centre, the seemingly most effective mind
of that time. Almost everybody is serving to increase its technical perfection, they trust its infor-mation and follow its instructions. |
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The computer
is standing, eternally composed, in the path of the hustle and bustle
of this colourless world: it delivers results, it knows nothing of sickness,
death and pain, it doesnt complain, doesnt smile and is
factual, fast, precise, special and universal; it is all encompassing. And they all have one thing in common: they are trying. |
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Hymns
of the Thunderstorm |
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n the middle
of these events, the breath of life appears on the square it
approaches the computer and blows it aside. Frozen with
horror and dismay the people watch this unbelievable event from the
scaffold. Within seconds
the scaffold becomes rotten and brittle. The confused humans flee from
their world and await the end of their world. From beneath the rubble, like a victory sign out of the silence, an ancient tree juts out. |
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Hymns of the Day |
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High above the tree appears as if floating in the atmosphere a vision; one can see ancient, familiar relations: the figures of conscience, of imagination, of free will as well as feelings and mind. On the left side high above, far in the background one can recognise the mighty figures of conscience bathed in golden light and richly adorned. |
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Opposite them on the right hand side one can see the wise figures of free will,
clothed in silver. In the middle,
between the figures of conscience and free will, stands the creative
figure of imagination. Somewhat lower, again on the left side, one sees the capable figures of feeling and understanding mind with long, light coloured robes and with a crown of light above their heads. |
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GERMANYS NEW CLASSICAL COMPOSER |
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