Dubble In It -- An Oratorio to the Progenitors of the Human Genome --Lifted and Lofted, Lafted and Lefted by Philip Harvey from lines in Finnegans Wake
‘Dubble In It’ was a Roaratorio based on words taken from all over Finnegans Wake . Roaratorio is a word borrowed from the Wake by John Cage as the title of his own radio sound art piece, based on the book. Composer Rod Baker and I looked at the theme of the 2008 Bloomsday (‘Joyce and Modernity’) and chose to celebrate the Human Genome and its Progenitors, as we called them. This was the second such oratorio written collaboratively by Baker and me, to be staged by Bloomsday in Melbourne. Some patrons with long memories will be taken back (or even taken aback) to the church in North Melbourne and to Ches Baragwaneth playing the Auditor-General, i.e. Here Comes Everybody Childers. An excellent review of this Oratorio was written by Roz Hames here: https://6fbb0498-09c3-4ba2-8f2a-f86e105c41d2.filesusr.com/ugd/b941fe_1604e6e1038041e58c08e98367152466.pdf Roz’s review helps give the gist of what’s happening and what happened. This weekend I came across the o...