This composition was intended to be the finale of the Mikrokosmos choir’s 20th anniversary show, Le jardin perdu, which was never performed. I reused the main melody in my children’s opera L’Europe de mes rêves (song Un souffle) and in my musical One World At A Time (song Intelligence With The Earth). Territoires du souffle no longer exists as a vocal work, but I used the title by Andrée Chedid as the name for my vocal-instrumental group in 2012.
Unpublished
difficulty rating: medium
Andrée Chedid
French
Chamber choir (SMATBtB) and piano
Duration: approximately 8 minutes
Cycle of ten poems
The original theme of the work, created in 2008, was taken up again in L’Europe de mes rêves, (opus 76) then in One World At A Time (opus 93).