63 p2 Miscellaneous Notes and Comments: Sci-Fi References in Music List
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This article is from the SF references in music List FAQ, by Rich Kulawiec rsk@gsp.org with numerous contributions by others.
63 p2 Miscellaneous Notes and Comments: Sci-Fi References in Music List
Ligeti, G. "Le Grand Macabre"
I. The setting is the countryside in Brueghelland. Preceded by
the drunken Piet the Pot, the two lovers Amando and Amanda look
for a secluded place in which to make love. Out of a sepulchre
to one side of the stage emerges Nekrotzar, Angel of Death,
Great Reaper, Demon, Vampire etc, to announce the end of the
world that day at midnight.
II. Astradamors, court astrologer and hen-pecked husband, sees
apparitions through his telescope portending disaster. His wife
dreams of Venus, whom she asks to be sent a real man for a
husband. Astradamors' fears are confirmed with the arrival of
Nekrotzar, who first fulfils Mescalina's sexual desires and then
kills her.
III. The gluttonous ruler Go-Go receives word from the Chief of
his secret police ('Gepopo') that a comet is headed on a collision
course for Breughelland. Nekrotzar arrives with appropriate pomp
and ceremony to announce once more the end of the world.
Astradamors celebrates the death of his wife with Piet the Pot in
a drinking bout, and Nekrotzar, imagining the cup is filled with
sacrificial blood instead of wine, joins in. Becoming increasingly
intoxicated, Nekrotzar boasts about his cruel misdeeds and fails
to notice that midnight has already passed.
IV. With everyone wondering whether or not the world has really
ended, Mescalina breaks out of her tomb and recognises Nekrotzar
as her first husband, who then sinks into oblivion under the
weight of his failure. Having missed all the excitement, the two
lovers reappear.
Mackover, Todd "Valis"
Based on the Philip K. Dick novel
Menotti, Gian Carlo "A Bride from Pluto"
Menotti, Giancarlo "Help, Help the Globolinks!"
Monk, Meredith & Chong, Ping "The Games"
About a human society in a spacecraft that has been en route to a
distant star system for many generations. The games are simple
children's games which have acquired ritual status in the spaceship
culture. (Ballet?)
Offenbach, Jacques "Tales of Hoffman"
The story of an automaton.
Offenbach, Jacques "Journey to the Moon"
Rice, Jeff "The War of the Worlds"
Swan, Donald "Perelandra"
Based on the C. S. Lewis
Swan, Donald various Tolkien songs (not opera)
? Robert Anton Wilson's stuff
? "A Wrinkle in Time"
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