Hydrogen Jukebox
E' il titolo di un'opera di Philip Glass sui testi di Allen Ginsberg, il famoso poeta della beat generation che, con versi incisivi, ha denunciato la crisi e la corruzione della politica americana, il degrado dell'ambiente, l'affermarsi di una tecnologia mostruosa e disumana. Philip Glass è forse il più prolifico e il più noto compositore contemporaneo; ha realizzato opere aventi per tema la politica (Satyagraha-Gandhi, Akhnaten, Waiting for the Barbarian, In the Penal Colony, Mishima, The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, the CIVIL warS), la scienza (Einstein on the Beach, Galileo, The Voyage), l'ambiente e la tecnologia (Anima Mundi, Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, 1000 Airplanes, Symphony6-Plutonian Ode), e anche l'energia (Itaipu). Opere commissionate e rappresentate nei maggiori teatri del mondo, Metropolitan e La Scala compresi.
Buona lettura e buon ascolto:
The Green Automobile
If I had a green automobile
I'd go find my hold companion
in his house on the Western ocean.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
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Howl
What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up
their brains and imagination?
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness!
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Uluru Song
When the red pond fills fish appear
When the red pond dries fish disappear.
Everything built on the desert crumbles to dust.
Electric cable transmission wires swept down.
The lizard people came out of the rock.
The red Kangaroo people forgot their own song.
Only a man with four sticks can cross the Simpson Desert.
One rain turns red dust green with leaves.
One raindrop begins the universe.
When the raindrop dries, worlds come to their end.
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Nagasaki Days
I walked outside & the bomb'd
dropped lots of plutonium
all over the Lower East Side
There weren't any buildings left just
iron skeletons
groceries burned, potholes open to
stinking sewer waters
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B000005J1H001013/0/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_013/102-9177044-4876904
Iron Horse
Who's the enemy, years after years
War after war, who's the enemy?
What's the weapon, battle after battle?
Wath's the news, defeat after defeat?
What's the picture, decade after decade?
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Wichita Vortex Sutra
I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas
but no afraid
to speak my lonesomeness in a car,
because not only my lomesomeness
it's Ours, all over America,
O tender fellow -
& spoken lomesomeness is Prophecy
in the moon 100 years ago or in
the middle of Kansas now.
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