Under the Sea
A few months ago, there was a story about a church in Mexico that reappeared after lying at the bottom of a reservoir for centuries. Similarly, there’s a church in Venezuela that is sometimes wet, sometimes dry. Pretty cool stuff!
French impressionistic composer Claude Debussy was dreaming of this stuff one hundred years before. His “Submerged Cathedral” is a staple of the piano repertoire. Large chords remind us of tall stone towers, dominating a murky landscape, portrayed by murmuring notes in the bass. The image in this video looks like the church where King Triton would take Ariel and his daughters. No doubt, Sebastian played a mean bubble-organ there.
Eric, how did you happen upon the churches in the reservoirs stories? Cool stuff indeed!
*Erik
It just came up in my news feed – I can’t remember if it was originally facebook, or just a generic news site, or what. However, I do remember a large response from the musical community of the appropriateness of Debussy’s piece in relation to these odd news pieces.