ROGER THOMPSONS DREAM

In October 1977, Roger Thompson had a curious dream. He dreamed that he was browsing round a dusty second-hand bookshop, and found the manuscript score of Thespis. To his surprise he found that no. 7 in the score was missing. When he recounted the dream to me a few days later, he admitted that he did not know what no. 7 ought to be but thought it might be "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain". However, a check with the libretto of the Rees reconstruction revealed that that famous chorus is no. 5 and that no. 7, if it existed, would have been Venus's Song, of which both the music and words have disappeared. A curious coincidence - or was it?

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