Memoirs of Elagabalus", "The Egg Musher", and "Mio Passar Solitario" have been performed for the first time by the El Cimarrón Ensemble at the festival "Sommerkonzerte im Altmühltal" (Audi Forum Ingolstadt, Germany) on July 12th, 2007.


ENSEMBLE
Voice, Violin, Guitar, Flute, Percussions, Director.

An egg musher drives in winter 1900 a load of fresh eggs down the frozen Yukon river from Lake Linderman to Dawson city. There, people became wealthy in the gold rush but couldn’t raise hens to provide them with fresh eggs. If the egg musher brings his cargo to Dawson undamaged, he has made his fortune, if not, he might be finished.

In the year 2050 the mayor of Dawson City unveils a monument in honour of this last egg musher, but much has changed since the golden times. The river does not freeze any more, sometimes it even runs out of water, there are no hens and chickens any more, and the glaciers will soon be melted artificially in order to provide the continent with fresh water. Far in the north, in Barrow, tourists can visit a reservation, where “good old Alaska” has remained. The baritone switches constantly from the part of the mayor to that of the musher and back and therefore stands for two extreme opposite positions. The soprano mimes in a touching serenade the chant of a sled dog that in the moonshine has discovered one of is relatives, the white wolf.