Located in the UK
Located in the USA
Located in Europe
- Lennox Berkeley
Castaway (1966)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Designed as a companion-piece to A Dinner Engagement
- 1(pic).1(ca).2+bcl.1/2110/perc/hp.pf/str
- SATB
- 2 Baritones, Bass, Mezzo Soprano, 3 Sopranos
- 1 hr
- Paul Dehn
- 21st November 2024, York Universtiy, Toronto, ON, Canada
- 22nd November 2024, York Universtiy, Toronto, ON, Canada
Programme Note
SYNOPSIS
The story is based on Homer’s Odyssey and tells how Odysseus is cast up after a storm on to an island where he meets Nausicaa, a princess. She falls in love with him but for reasons of etiquette cannot ask him his identity until he has dined at the palace. That evening, on hearing a blind minstrel sing of the ‘Trojan Horse’, Odysseus reveals who
he is. On the following day, he must sail for Ithaca to his beloved wife Penelope. Nausicaa is greatly disappointed.
The story is based on Homer’s Odyssey and tells how Odysseus is cast up after a storm on to an island where he meets Nausicaa, a princess. She falls in love with him but for reasons of etiquette cannot ask him his identity until he has dined at the palace. That evening, on hearing a blind minstrel sing of the ‘Trojan Horse’, Odysseus reveals who
he is. On the following day, he must sail for Ithaca to his beloved wife Penelope. Nausicaa is greatly disappointed.