THE GREAT LIBRARY - MISSION STATEMENT
50 years ago I first started to notice something fishy in the accepted notions of how our world came to be the way it is. (blame my dad for allowing me access to his eclectic library). Science and religion had different explanations; but both left serious gaps and contradictions unresolved. As I grew up curious, with an enormous appetite for reading material of all types, It became clear that at some point in our past, there has been a cover-up, a redaction of the historical record; and that everything after that point has been based on faulty or missing information. Some persons needed to bury certain information in order to gain and maintain power.
Over the years I found many clues as to what kind of knowledge had been lost; but only a few specifics. What we are left with is a legacy of questions and enigmatic artifacts; but one thing has become obvious - that the dividing moment of our understanding is not before and after the birth of Christ. The watershed event marking the schism of history is the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, and assassination of Hypatia during Easter week, 415 AD.
In 1986 I found Carl Sagan's book COSMOS wherein he spells out this conclusion coherently and convincingly. Having read his impassioned argument I felt driven to somehow share this awareness with a wider audience. I imagined it happening in the form of a collection of songs and vignettes which could portray the struggle of ideologies and issues surrounding this crime against humanity. I began collecting pieces of the puzzle in scenes, stories and music to be assembled in the form of a Musical Theatre presentation. A Modern Opera which seems to have become my life's work
In the past few years I realized the content had far outgrown the original concept and so decided to make the work public while still in process, hoping to attract some supporters, collaborators and co-creators who would have an interest in seeing the story unfold. I expect to continue working on this for the rest of my life, with or without the support of anyone else.
However, with your participation and appreciation The GREAT LIBRARY will grow at a much faster rate than it could with me plugging along alone. ACT 0 has thirty minutes of music, text and images which you can check out here >
http://www.recordingsunlimited.com/great-library.htm
I could really use some feedback and sincere critiques here. I've been guided by instinct and mostly working solo on this project. Over the past year and a bit I've been trying to build an audience and a team with whom I could share this journey. I've had to invent a new medium in order to tell the story of Hypatia and the Library.
50 years ago I first started to notice something fishy in the accepted notions of how our world came to be the way it is. (blame my dad for allowing me access to his eclectic library). Science and religion had different explanations; but both left serious gaps and contradictions unresolved. As I grew up curious, with an enormous appetite for reading material of all types, It became clear that at some point in our past, there has been a cover-up, a redaction of the historical record; and that everything after that point has been based on faulty or missing information. Some persons needed to bury certain information in order to gain and maintain power.
Over the years I found many clues as to what kind of knowledge had been lost; but only a few specifics. What we are left with is a legacy of questions and enigmatic artifacts; but one thing has become obvious - that the dividing moment of our understanding is not before and after the birth of Christ. The watershed event marking the schism of history is the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, and assassination of Hypatia during Easter week, 415 AD.
In 1986 I found Carl Sagan's book COSMOS wherein he spells out this conclusion coherently and convincingly. Having read his impassioned argument I felt driven to somehow share this awareness with a wider audience. I imagined it happening in the form of a collection of songs and vignettes which could portray the struggle of ideologies and issues surrounding this crime against humanity. I began collecting pieces of the puzzle in scenes, stories and music to be assembled in the form of a Musical Theatre presentation. A Modern Opera which seems to have become my life's work
In the past few years I realized the content had far outgrown the original concept and so decided to make the work public while still in process, hoping to attract some supporters, collaborators and co-creators who would have an interest in seeing the story unfold. I expect to continue working on this for the rest of my life, with or without the support of anyone else.
However, with your participation and appreciation The GREAT LIBRARY will grow at a much faster rate than it could with me plugging along alone. ACT 0 has thirty minutes of music, text and images which you can check out here >
http://www.recordingsunlimited.com/great-library.htm
I could really use some feedback and sincere critiques here. I've been guided by instinct and mostly working solo on this project. Over the past year and a bit I've been trying to build an audience and a team with whom I could share this journey. I've had to invent a new medium in order to tell the story of Hypatia and the Library.
