FROM THE ATLAS OF IMAGINARY PLACES
PROGRAM NOTE
As someone who has spent a good portion of her life traveling, the idea of going to imaginary places has always held a great fascination. It probably began with “Gulliver’s Travels,” a book that has obsessed me since childhood. This musical suite has a location which, though not part of the original “Gulliver,” is one that I thought should be there. It is called “Danzabar” and it is a land where everyone dances all the time, even in their sleep! The other imaginary places are more familiar and also exist in literature: “Circe’s Island” from Homer’s “Ulysses;” “Xanadu” from Samuel Taylor Colridge’s poem “Kubla Khan;” “Lemuria” from a poem by C. S. Lewis called “The Last of the Wine,” and “Shangri-la” from the book “Lost Horizons” by James Hilton.
Victoria Bond
March24,2022