The Flight Aborted
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Gregory Zavracky| Song Title | The Flight Aborted (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Dominick Argento |
| Author(s): | Salomon August Andrée (Argento, Dominick) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Adventures; Balloons; Birds; Determined; Diaries; Dripping; Expeditions; Exploring; Failures; Famished; Feet; Flying; Fog; Ice; Journeys; Jumping; Land; Monotonous; Part of a Song Cycle; Problems; Prose; Rattling; Rest; Rising; Sails; Sinking; Slamming; Sleep; Sounds; Swaying; Sweden; Swedish; Touching; Traveling; Twisting; Walking; Wishing; Writing |
| First Line | Fog still intense (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:45 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1982 (Search) |
| Larger Work | The Andrée Expedition (Search) |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Argento-Dominick-The-Andree-Expedition-baritone-piano/2004779 |
| Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/0CTzNQs5OcLqN5qhqlLs9e?si=-9TGcaQNQ2G90NHufIt-Fg |
| Difficulty Level | Masters/YA (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | The Andrée Expedition, Part One: In the Air, no. 6 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Baritone |
| Range: | Bb2 - F#4 (Search) |
| Original Key | Bb Major (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Jeanne Shepard (Search) |
| Premiered By | Håkan Hagegård, baritone; Thomas Schuback, piano (Search) |
| Commissioned By | The Schubert Club of St. Paul in honor of its 100th Anniversary (Search) |
| Notes | https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-andree-balloon-crash-a-photographic-journey-through-to-most-surreal-of-arctic-disasters (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | Boosey and Hawkes (Search) |
| Sources Cited | A 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) |
| Contributor | JEM (Search) |