![]() ![]() As part of my project to create a full-length opera based on this great novel, Overstory Overture introduces the central character and main themes of the book, as well as the sounds, structures and sensations that dramatize the networked intelligence of the natural world, the unthinking harm that we subject it to, and the possibility of a completely new view of our interconnected responsibility and potential. ”For me,” says Machover, “no book has spoken more eloquently and passionately about the price humanity pays by separating ourselves from the world around us than Richard Powers’ The Overstory. Machover’s Overstory Overture is a 30-minute work, for a single voice, chamber ensemble, and electronics the narrative is based on Richard Powers’ 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory. Both works explore the current state of human alienation from nature and the urgency of radically realigning ourselves with the world around us. ![]()
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