Voyage
(from L'Invitation au Voyage,1971)
Arranged for flute and string quintet by Clare Hoffman (1988)
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see also:
original version L'Invitation au Voyage (a cappella chorus),
version for flute and orchestra,
version for flute and string orchestra,
version for flute and harp,
and version for flute and piano
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First performed September 17, 1988, at the Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, by Clare Hoffman, flute, with the Festival quintet; Grand Canyon, AZ
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DurationÂ
8 minutes
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Program note
In 1971 I set of Richard Wilbur's translation of Baudelaire's famous L'Invitation au voyage for a cappella chorus. Wilbur's poignant setting pictures a world of obsessive imagination — a drugged version 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."
This version for flute and string quintet is derived from the arrangement I made for flute and string orchestra in 1983.
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— John Corigliano