VOYAGES OF AENEAS
CHOGA: DISCOVERY AFTER DESTRUCTION (Short Version)

Scenes Description Music Duration
I. Invocation

Prayer for the World.

1. "Firecry: A Call to Prayer" (Wendy Luck) (Dance)
4:00
II. Destruction Destruction of Troy, End of the Ancient World, Beginning of Modern World (Out of the ashes of Troy arises Western Civilization 2. "Machine Meeting Its Own Reflection" (John Gilbert & Russell Gilbert)
5:00
III. Darkness Aeneas' father, Anchises ,reveals the future, the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries, the destruction of the World Trade Center (destruction of the innocents) 3. "Chirisan" (Jong Suh Lee)
4:00
IV. Lost Aeneas projected into the future he witnesses through the vision of Anchises. Lost in a storm which serves as the metaphor for further destruction, Aeneas feels abandoned and betrayed by the world

4. "Meander " (Paul Lee)

2:00

 

V. Chosun (Korea) Aeneas comes upon Chosun, Land of Calm: Korea. He begins to discover the people, the customs, the ceremonies, and the music. Masks enter at the end of No. 8. Masks for all of No. 13. 5. "Minsogak - eui Balgyen" (Tom Beyer)

6. "White Dance" (Young Mi Ha) (Dance)

7. "Moon" (Doo Jin Ahn)

8. "Second Ritual" (Dinu Ghezzo)
(Dance)

 

2:00


4:00

8:00

4:30

 

VI. Sanctuary Aeneas finds a simple hut, a Choga that becomes a refuge for meditation, discovery, and creativity...the "clean, well-lighted room" that is the mind of artist finding sanctuary from a chaotic world that is a personal creative space.

9. "Choga" (Gongs: Tom Beyer)

1:00
VII. Renaissance

Aeneas finds renewal coming out of his encounter with Korea and realizes that the meeting of East and West is the beginning of a new era of promise for humanity...it is this synthesis that can make a new world.

Masks that tormented Aeneas exit one by one.

10. "A New World...." (Everyone)

Improvisation

5:00
   
Total
39:30