{"id":1369,"date":"2008-12-14T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:13:01","slug":"enchanted-preludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1369","title":{"rendered":"Enchanted Preludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elliot Carter, <em>Enchanted Preludes (1988)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Enchanted Preludes <\/em>is a birthday present for Ann Santen, commissioned by her husband, Harry, and composed in gratitude for their enthusiastic and deeply caring support of American music. It is a duet for flute and cello in which the two instruments combine their different characters and musical materials into statements of varying moods. The title comes from a poem of Wallace Stevens: The Pure Good of Theory, &#8220;All the Preludes to Felicity,&#8221; stanza no.7:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Felicity, ah! Time is the hooded enemy,<br \/>\nThe inimical music, the enchanted space<br \/>\nIn which the enchanted preludes have their place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The score was given its first performance by Patricia Spencer, flute, and Andr\u00e9 Emelianoff, cello, of the Da Capo Chamber Players in New York, on May 16, 1988.<br \/>\n[Elliott Carter]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Enchanted Preludes\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aI6paJHpD90?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<div id=\"related-posts-MRP_all\" class=\"related-posts-type\">\n<h3>RELATED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/3220\">RIP Elliott Carter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elliot Carter, Enchanted Preludes (1988) Enchanted Preludes is a birthday present for Ann Santen, commissioned by her husband, Harry, and composed in gratitude for their enthusiastic and deeply caring support of American music. It is a duet for flute and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1369\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[673],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strumentale-mus","tag-carter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17995,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/17995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}