Premiere of the new chamber music album
24.11.2011/State Opera in Banská Bystrica
The piece for a chamber orchestra, timpani
percussion, soprano and alt has an oriental
character. The text is a ritual prayer of Oglala
Sioux, an Indian tribe originated in Central America.
The theme was taken from the book "Black Elk's
Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux".
The pagan habits reflected in individual rites
of scarifying grass, tobacco, water, colour and
clothing made of bison skin to the sacred bison.
The rite of creating the sacred smoke brings
purgation of impure thoughts and acts of people
who would like to scarify the Earth gifts to
the sacred bison. All those who would like to
enjoy the rite have to clean their hands by
water and their bodies by the sacred pipe smoke
and only then they can start the rite. After
reading the book I realised how wonderful it
was that the people have managed to unify their
thinking, to enjoy the genuine relaxation and
to set themselves to the same wavelength of
thinking leading to trance during individual rites.
