Work Information
| Publisher |
G Schirmer Inc |
Category |
Chorus a cappella / Chorus plus 1 instrument |
| Year Composed |
1971 |
Duration |
8 Minutes |
| Chorus |
SATB chorus |
Languages |
English |
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| Octavo(s): |
50318450 |
Octavo(s): |
GS31845 |
Programme Note
Composer Note:
An a capella choral work, composed in 1971, is a setting of Richard Wilbur’s translation of Baudelaire’s L’Invitation au Voyage. Wilbur’s poignant setting pictures a world of obsessive imagination – a drugged vision of heaven full of sensual imagery. The music echoes the quality of the repeated refrain found in this lush translation: “There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, richness, quietness and pleasure.”
— John Corigliano
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