Pandora’s Locker - COC Free Concert December 13, 2007

GGS New Music Ensemble
Brian Current, conductor
presents

Pandora’s Locker
A new urban rap opera by Dean Burry, Pandora’s Locker is inspired by the Greek myth of Pandora’s Box, in which a young woman’s curiosity leads to the unleashing of all the world’s evils. It is a simple, archetypal myth, which reflects our own hunt for knowledge and the potential for disaster upon its discovery. This search for information - keys to the future and past—is never more tangible than in the “up-and-down” lives of the average high school teenager. Pandora’s curiosity is timeless.
Through the use of themes such as gender issues, sexuality and gun violence, and a musical ensemble including modern “urban music” inspired electronics, the opera places the Pandora myth within a contemporary, inner-city high school setting. It reveals the many elements of our lives that we seek to keep locked up, but which demand, sometimes violently, to be released.

Official Website: http://www.coc.ca/performances/concerts_december07.html