Kidnapped at an early age, Ansset has been raised in isolation at a mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life is filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any other. But Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse-for it reflects all the hopes and fears of his audience, and, by magnifying their emotions, can be used either to heal or to destroy. When it is discovered that his is the voice that the Emperor has waited decades for, Ansset is summoned to the Imperial ...
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Kidnapped at an early age, Ansset has been raised in isolation at a mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life is filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any other. But Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse-for it reflects all the hopes and fears of his audience, and, by magnifying their emotions, can be used either to heal or to destroy. When it is discovered that his is the voice that the Emperor has waited decades for, Ansset is summoned to the Imperial Palace on Old Earth. Many fates rest in Ansset's hands, and his songs will soon be put to the test: either to salve the troubled conscience of a conqueror or drive him, and the universe, into mad chaos. Songmaster is a haunting story of power and love-the tale of a man who would destroy everything he loves to preserve humanity's peace, and a boy who might just sing the world away.
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Hi I spoke with OSC in about 1981/82 regarding my love of this work and offered my intention re a movie made of this very special story. It resonated in me (a musician/singer) like no other piece of literature in my life, before or since.
This year I will inquire after an option to write the musical play. Still in screen form. Every singer would find parts of him/her self in this epic. The thought that someone could sing your own feelings back to you, as if reading your musical and emotional mind. There is a spiritualness in this book. The book came to me in the most unusual way. At the library in North Hollywood, CA I was browsing and in the corner of a vacant row on the top shelf was the library copy (Green cover) of Songmaster sticking out of the row and the title appealed to me, being an aspiring songwriter, back then. It made me cry more than once and I have probably read it ten times since then.
I have read the reveiws herein and it broadens my perspective on the story. I have heard in the ethers the manner in which Ansett sings the songs without using words only notes and tones. We need more Songmasters.
