Edith Canat de Chizy (1950)

A song of joys (2008)

for mixed choir and orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 2008
    • Duration: 14 mn
    • Publisher: Lemoine, Paris, 2008
    • Commission: Orchestre national d'Ile de France
    • Libretto (details, author):

      poème éponyme de Walt Whitman

Detailed formation
  • mixed choir à 16 voix [SATB]
  • 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, 3 percussionists, 12 violins, 10 second violins, 8 violas, 6 cellos, 4 double basses

Premiere information

  • Date: 14 May 2008
    Location:

    France, Créteil, Maison des Arts


    Performers:

    l'ensemble Sequenza 9.3, Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France, direction : Jean Deroyer.

Table of contents

  1. Song
  2. Space
  3. Soul
  4. Life
  5. Death
  6. Sail.