Hover: Six Fables

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Hover: Six Fables

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2003 Hover: Six Fables. Chamber Choir of Armenia. Based on the writings of Vardan Aigetski. New music composed by Stepan Babatorosyan. Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Music.

This is lovely contemporary orchestral and vocal music. Beautifully, professionally executed. Of course it is all in Armenian! Three of these six fables are Aesopic in one way or another, although my sense from the texts offered here in English in the accompanying booklet is that they are more morality tales than fables. "The Eagle and the Arrow" is straight from Aesop. "The Ailing Lion and the Fox" is also straight from Aesop, though in this "Eastern" version it is a donkey's ears and heart that are in question. In Western Europe, at issue was a deer's heart that the fox eats and then tells the lion that the deer had none. In a switch from a different fable, the lion was told that he needed these things to cure his disease. The young camels and donkeys ask their mothers why they have to work for food but the pigs do not. The mothers answer that patience brings understanding. The understanding comes on slaughter day for the pigs! Aesop survives in a lot of ways in a lot of places!

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2003

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