How can i lose you myths and hymns

The myths came first. The hymns were drawn from an old hymnal found in a second-hand bookshop. Songs began to take shape. They seemed to complement each other, reflecting different parts of us: the myths, our behaviour; the hymns, our prayers. We still want to fly high like Icarus, take wing like Pegasus, we still hope, we still pray, we still love, we still despair. So Myths and Hymns is a song-cycle for our times.

A Book of Life in words and music. A cosmic review. Guettel is an extraordinary and provocative talent who knows no fear but the fear of complacency.

The risks he takes, the challenges he sets himself — and us — are not about to bring him fame and fortune in the short term. Myths and Hymns is a song cycle on the subject of faith and longing in a secular world. Guettel lets his influences tumble over each other in musical somersaults that breach the boundaries of conventional song structure He began writing songs that directly addressed the fates of, among others, Icarus, Pegasus and Sisyphus.

It was not until six years later, when Guettel chanced upon a 19th-century Presbyterian hymnal in a used bookshop, that he became interested in hymns. He later told Stagebill magazine that this discovery rendered "an actual physical response, an uncharacteristic outpouring of creativity. An early version of the work, presented at the New Lyric Festival in Northampton, Massachusetts, in the summer of , followed by two workshops at the Public Theater, helped sharpen this focus and resulted in Guettel's re-titling the piece Saturn Returns for its world premiere at the Public Theater.

A reference to the completion of Saturn's year cycle around the sun, this return of Saturn is thought to be, as Guettel pointed out in his own program note for the show, "for many of us, a time of profound reassessment.

What have I done with this first cycle of my life? Who have I become? The songs that comprise Myths and Hymns are an intricate interweaving of pop and theatrical styles. Guettel's unusual gifts," wrote Martin Gottfried in his review of Saturn Returns.

A song cycle on the subject of faith and longing in a secular world, Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns offers up a dazzling array of songs adapted from classic Greek myths and the texts of an early American hymn-book. The New York Times described it as "lofty but accessible and intensely passionate.

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