Intermezzo (from 'Music for a Story-Telling')

written in 1991 / recorded in 1994

This tune was originally written as a quiet part for bridging Rock jam parts of a long composition I wrote in early 1991 and later converted to this form to be fit in to a conceptual work titled Music for a Story-Telling. As the title clearly says, the work is about telling a story and this tune is given a function of Intermezzo, in which, the story is to be told without featuring any word. Therefore, it inevitably requires actors to perform pantomime on the stage, but in this video version, I replaced possible explicit acts with showing some classical art works. What the story holds for this tune is a sexual intercourse takes place deep in a forest between a male antagonist and an innocent village girl, awkwardly accompanied by another male character, who can only break through both parties’ language barrier.

Intermezzo is set in the half way through the whole story, in the middle of Part 2 out of 3, and it provides an important twist to the flow of the story.