Publisher

Protone

Year of Composition

2022

Instrumentation

Flute, viola, harp, and 2 percussionists

Categories

Chamber Music

Movements

I. Danzabar
II. Circe's Island
III. Xanadu
IV. Lemuria
V. Shangri-la

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.

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