Higher than Babel (1999)

Written by Andrew Caldecott, Bridewell Theatre, London.
Music Soundtrack by Mick Ford and Robert Hickson.
Morals and politics. Galileo challenges the church by claiming the
Earth is not the centre of the universe, but travels round the Sun.
When he’s arrested, his science book is rescued and smuggled away
by his young protogé, Scioni. It turns up centuries later, in Nazi Germany, and the wife of a physicist saves it from the book-burnings. It was obvious – medieval, acoustic-based music for 17th Century Galileo, and sparse, minimalist, percussive music for the 20th Century Nazis. Drawing them together into a unified style was fascinating.