SKU: SU.47000330
Composed by Stanley
Silverman. Chamber Music,
Larger Chamber Ensemble.
Rock Band. Study Score.
Subito Music Corporation
#47000330. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.47000330).
ELEPHANT STEPS
has been described as
mixed-means theater,
where music and language,
sound and light, images
and movement, graphics
and films, incense and
machinery, props and
performers are
incorporated into a
spectacular mix. The
action of the opera
according to Richard
Foreman, who wrote the
libretto, concerns a
quest. Hartman, who is
ill, is warned he must
free himself from the
spiritual influence of a
mysterious guru by the
name of Reinhardt.
Sneaking off to
Reinhardt’s house,
he faints upon finding
the front door locked.
After visiting
Night-town, he is
abducted and grilled in a
radio station by his
enemies. They try to
broadcast his public
confession over the
radio. Back home, safe in
his kitchen, Hartman
dreams of Reinhardt, as
Elephant-Angels appear
and lead him into the
street, up a ladder to
Reinhardt’s second
floor window. The window
quivers with light, and
what he sees brings him
illumination. 2(2) 0 2(2)
1(1); 1111; 3 perc, hp,
cel, pno, gtr; stgs; rock
band Duration: Full
Evening Composed: 1968
Published by: Ben Rena
Music Performance
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