the AGNOSTIC
Slovak Philharmonic Choir
Conductor - Stephen Somary
Choir Master - Jan Rozehnal
Alto Soloist - Hana Štolfová-Bandová
Baritone Soloist - Ján Durco
Boy Alto Soloist - Andrej Mackovich
member of Bratislava Boys Choir
CD202
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I. INTRODUCTION II. TODD III. SAM IV. SAM'S PRAYER V. EGO VI. FALSE GODS INTERLUDE VII. FALSE GODS VIII. COWARDICE IX. SURRENDER X. DEATH OF THE SPIRIT XI. RESURRECTION Total time: 70:19 |
Webster's dictionary defines "agnostic" as one who holds that the ultimate cause (God) and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. Well, then, David Chesky has taken agnosticism one small step forward and made it into his own musical-poetical existential treatise; his own courageous hymn to modern-day man. Chesky's concerns, themes, pleadings and gropings all struggle with what it means to be alone and cast asunder in a Godless universe. His recitativo is that we have no answers - only questions. Chesky does not stop or falter on his pilgrimage to individual self-affirmation. In fact, Chesky's libretto belabors the point of man being responsible to himself vis a vis his world. In a world lacking final cause, bereft of ultimate knowledge, the author maintains that contemporary man has little alternative but to go inside himself and invent himself out of his own material. Only then can he begin to realize his own being. - Richard Kalich