“The Crystal Lady-in-Waiting” — a miniature for small symphony orchestra.

“The Crystal Lady-in-Waiting” — a miniature for small symphony orchestra.
Composer: Alexander Khomenko.

Here you can watch the animated film that uses this miniature as its soundtrack.

“Apocryphon” (based on Max Dalin’s novel “The Bonfire and the Salamander”). Screenplay by V. Osadchenko, music by A. Khomenko. Images and animation: ChatGPT and Pixverse.

“Important and monstrously rich gentlemen used to come to my father from the capital, and even from abroad, to look at the dolls. I didn’t like the guests: I was told, ‘Don’t forget your muff, little flower,’ but I loved watching them meet my father’s dolls for the first time.

Not everyone was delighted by the dolls, though many were enraptured to the point of ecstasy, almost to tears. Some were struck with horror. One high-strung lady said, ‘My God, they look as if they’re gazing from beyond the grave!’ and fled, yet her companion paid a fortune for an automaton of a girl at her copybook. Precisely because the doll’s eyes looked as if they were gazing from beyond the grave. Many wanted that rapture, that horror, for their own.”

M. Dalin. “The Bonfire and the Salamander” (translated by Claude)

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