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Uroš Rojko: SPHINX for Orchestra (2019) Ljubljana, 12th of March 2020, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Simon Perčič, It should have been a Youth concert, but due to the lock-down (Corona), the performance was only recorded without an audience. Recording: Matjaž Prah, Radio Slovenia SPHINX: In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was, as we know, half a lion, half a man with the face of a virgin, who intimidated the ancient Thebans and asked every traveler in front of the Theban walls the question: "Who walks at four in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening?" She killed anyone who could not answer it. Oedipus solved the riddle - this is a man who, as a child, crawls on all fours and rests on a stick in his old age. The sphinx threw herself into the abyss ashamed. Nowadays, the Sphinx can symbolise the given, nature, living conditions, and Oedipus the Homo sapiens, who solves its riddles throughout its constructive history and the more it penetrates its secrets, the more it destroys it. Nature, of course, cannot be destroyed, as Yuval Noah Harari says, but it can be changed. The changes caused by Homo sapiens due to their (our) own comfort and technological progress mean the collapse of an unimaginable number of animal and plant species, and the global world as we know it is increasingly threatened. Just as Oedipus did not know what horrors he had caused as an incestuous murderer of his own father, so the Homo sapiens are clearly unaware of how dangerously we threaten virtually everything that exists on our planet.