Pike's Dream Opera Pt 6

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Uploaded by on Feb 4, 2007

An original one-act opera composed by Mark Arnest in celebration of the 250 anniversary of Zebulon Pike, libretto by Lauren Arnest, comissioned by the Pioneers Museum, and performed by the Colorado Springs Conversatory.

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  • Oops - that should be "Wilkinson." He was plotting with Aaron Burr to split off the west, where they could found their own country. One theory of the Pike expedition is that Burr and Wilkinson expected Pike's presence to trigger a Spanish military response, which would justify the the US sending troops that would take over the southwest. The Spanish would have nothing to do with it, and treated Pike and his men as honored guests.

  • A note from the composer:

    From the bucolic Spanish music, through the entrance of General Wilkinsons, Pike's benefactor and nemesis, to Pike's wife and father begging Pike to renounce Wilkinson. The opera's musical climax, "Homeward Bound," a quartet with chorus, begins 2:50.

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