Musique Des Dieux

Le Carre Hermes Paris > Automne - Hiver 1996/97

Music of the Gods

The story is told how Syrinx, an Arcadian nymph and the model of virtue, once changed herself into reeds to escape the attentions of the great Pan. The frolicsome but wily god, however, cut these same reeds and formed them into a rustic flute, whose plaintive accents still pipe to us of the frustration of the swain and the breathlessness of the beauty. Fauns, nymphs, satyrs, centaurs and the god Hermes in person, make a frieze to frame this primeval drama of 'sexual harassment".