Menagerie
2001
flute, soprano, piano
(PR)
13'
Movements
L'Hippocampe [The Sea Horse]
(Recording: Mary Ellen Callahan, Zara Lawler, and Margaret Kampmeier)
1'45"
Le Léopard [The Leopard]
(Recording: Mary Ellen Callahan, Zara Lawler, and Margaret Kampmeier)
2'30"
La Sauterelle [The Grasshopper]
(Recording: Mary Ellen Callahan, Zara Lawler, and Margaret Kampmeier)
45"
Le Ver Luisant [The Glowworm]
(Recording: Mary Ellen Callahan, Zara Lawler, and Margaret Kampmeier)
3'45"
Poet Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was an important figure in the French surrealist movement.
His Chantefables pour les Enfants Sages (Librarie Gründ, 1944), the volume in which these texts originally appeared, was the last work Desnos published before being arrested by the occupying Germans who deported him to Buchenwald. He was later force-marched to Terezin where he died of typhus just days after the camp was liberated by the Allied armies.
La Fourmi, La Sauterelle, Le Léopard, L’Hippocampe, Le Zèbre, and Le Ver luisant from Chantefables et Chantefleurs by Robert Desnos, © Editions Gründ, Paris; used with permission.