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the AGNOSTIC Slovak Philharmonic Choir Conductor - Stephen Somary Choir Master - Jan Rozehnal Alto Soloist - Hana tolfová-Bandová Baritone Soloist - Ján Durco Boy Alto Soloist - Andrej Mackovich member of Bratislava Boys Choir CD202
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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 |
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