![]() ![]() Different settings of the kaleidoscope generate particular harmonic colours … The guiding metaphor for the music is one not found in the novel …In a kaleidoscope, small fragments of coloured glass fall into arbitrary relationships which are then mirrored geometrically to create the illusion of order. It was a complex plot and a very complex score that at times sounded completely random. ![]() Should one therefore also, before attending the opera, study the music of its composer Elliott Gyger to understand how and why the music was conceived? Had one not had the visual aspect and the text so wonderfully displayed on surtitles, hearing the music would not have given the listener the effect of what was transpiring. Oscar and Lucinda, Sydney Chamber Opera, Carriageworks. ![]()
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