Sunken Cathedral
A severe drought in Venezuela has exposed a church that had been inundated when a hydroelectric dam was built in 1985. The 25-meter-tall church and the Andean town of Potosi were flooded to establish the Uribante-Caparo water reservoir to power the plant. The church has now become the ominous symbol of energy shortages in the country. There is no doubt in my mind that only one piece of music can accompany properly the viewing of the before and after pictures seen on the National Geographic Website : Debussy’s La Cathédrale engloutie.
To listen to this wonderfully atmospheric prelude, performed by Francine Kay…
Surely the soundtrack behind this sequence of pictures should be Debussy’s La cathédrale engloutie.