{"id":191,"date":"2006-03-19T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/?p=191"},"modified":"2015-07-08T22:50:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T22:50:59","slug":"histrionica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Histrionica"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Histrionica<\/p>\n

a melodrama for ‘cello and gamelan instruments
\n2006<\/p>\n

First performed at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge in March 2006 by Anton Lukoszevieze and members of the Cambridge Gamelan Society.<\/p>\n

Histrionica is a melodrama for ‘cello and gamelan instruments. The melodrama is abstract, but is perhaps best described as being like an extreme counselling session between a histrionic client and a very calm counsellor. The ‘cello is the client. As might be expected, there is a coming together at the end. I actually wanted to avoid this – I wanted to keep the client and counsellor apart, but I’m afraid the romance of the situation overcame me and we finish with a very nice and gentle chorale.<\/p>\n

E.M.Forster expressed it elegantly at the end of A Passage to India<\/em>:<\/p>\n

‘Why can’t we be friends now?’ said the other, holding him affectionately. ‘It’s what I want. It’s what you want.’<\/p>\n

But the horses didn’t want it – they swerved apart; the earth didn’t want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single-file; the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw the Mau beneath: they didn’t want it, they said in their hundred voices, ‘No, not yet,’ and the sky said, ‘No, not there.’<\/p>\n

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