The Balloon Rises

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Song TitleThe Balloon Rises (Search)
Composer(s):Dominick Argento
Author(s):Nils Strindberg (Argento, Dominick)
Keyword(s) & Features: Adventures; Anna; Balloons; Blackbirds; Cheers; Circling; Dear; Diaries; Distance; Expeditions; Exploring; Flying; Fog; Friends; Good Night; Home; Hurrah; Journeys; Knives; Mists; Omens; Parents; Part of a Song Cycle; Peculiar; Prose; Questioning; Resting; Rising; Serious; Silent; Still; Success; Sun; Sweden; Swedish; Voices; Wonderful; Wondering; Writing
First LineDearest Anna (Search)
Average Duration3:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1982 (Search)
Larger WorkThe Andrée Expedition (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Argento-Dominick-The-Andree-Expedition-baritone-piano/2004779
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/4MRNKzqOkVO2F2RhUXlVUi?si=0RWFwlbNRAiCMhbzebwWtA
Difficulty LevelMasters/YA (Search)
Catalog DesignationThe Andrée Expedition, Part One: In the Air, no. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerBaritone
Range: C3 - F#4 (Search)
Original KeyD major (Search)
Dedicated ToJeanne Shepard (Search)
Premiered ByHåkan Hagegård, baritone; Thomas Schuback, piano (Search)
Commissioned ByThe Schubert Club of St. Paul in honor of its 100th Anniversary (Search)
Noteshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-andree-balloon-crash-a-photographic-journey-through-to-most-surreal-of-arctic-disasters (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceBoosey and Hawkes (Search)
Sources CitedA performer's guide to the text and music of Dominick Argento's The Andrée Expedition, a dissertation by Michael Andrew Paxson. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1261075936&disposition=inline (Search)
ContributorJEM (Search)
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