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Sound Energy: "Hero and leander" for string trio and puppet theater(1992)

3/2/2019

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Last year Sound Energy participated in a revival performance of Marti Epstein's 1992 "Hero and Leander" for violin, viola, cello, and puppet theater. Hero and Leander is the story of how Leander, a young man from Abydos, falls in love with Hero. Hero is a priestess of Aphrodite who lives in a tower on the opposite side of the Hellespont strait. To get to her in the tower, Leander would swim every night across the strait to be with her. Hero would light a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way. But one stormy winter night, the waves tossed Leander about as he swam the strait, and the breezes blew out Hero's light. Leander lost his way and was drowned by Poseidon.

Last year Sound Energy performed this work for the first time since its premiere in Germany in 1992, this time at Seully Hall at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Here are two excerpts from that performance: in the first, Leander swims across the strait and is greeted by Hero
Leander's drowning
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