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Fly to Paradise
Eric Whitacre (arr. Shaw)
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General Info
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Duration: c. 4:50
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Fly to Paradise began its musical life as the fourth installment of Whitacre's Virtual Choir series, which brought over 8000 singers from 101 countries together in a fusion of music and social media. Fly to Paradise is taken from the award-winning musical Paradise Lost and in its original version combines choral performance with electronic soundscapes. In this arrangement, the listener will hear the wind sections taking the role of the vocalist and the percussion section creating an acoustic version of the original synthetic background.
- Program Note from Aledo High School Wind Ensemble concert program, 12 February 2016
The 12 February 2016 performance of this work at the Texas Music Educators Convention by the Aledo High School Wind Ensemble featured 11 women performing modern interpretive dance.
- Program Note by Dave Strickler
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) Symphonic Band (Jamal Duncan, conductor) – 30 April 2017
- Aledo (Texas) High School Wind Ensemble (Joey Paul, conductor) - 12 February 2016 (2016 TMEA Conference, San Antonio)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- The Seal Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2011/2021)
- Sing Gently (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Mösenbichler-Bryant) (2020/2021)
All Wind Works
- Cloudburst (1991/ tr. 2001)
- Deep Field (2015/2016)
- Equus (2000)
- Fly to Paradise
- Ghost Train (1995)
- Godzilla Eats Las Vegas (1996)
- Goodnight Moon
- Libertas Imperio (2009)
- Lux Aurumque (2005)
- Noisy Wheels of Joy (2002)
- October (2000)
- October (arr. Miller) (2000)
- October (arr. Ritz & Sullivan) (2000/2005)
- The Seal Lullaby (2011)
- The Seal Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (2011/2021)
- Sing Gently (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Mösenbichler-Bryant) (2020/2021)
- Sleep (2000)
- Sleep (arr. Nowlin) (2000/2016)
- Sleep, My Child (arr. Gershman) (2013)
- Star-Spangled Banner (as arranger) (1814/2018)
Resources
- Eric Whitacre website Accessed 16 February 2016
- J.D. Shaw, University of South Carolina Accessed 16 February 2016