Poul Ruders: Dreamland (Score)

Parts = WH31171APreface / Programme NoteWhen looking for an interpretation on the internet of Edgar Allan Poe´s DREAMLAND, it turns out that there are as many interpretations as there are interpreters. Some believe it is the mad hallucinations of a drug addict (could be Poe himself), others see it as Poe´s equivalent of Dante´s INFERNO ? a tale from the Underworld.One thing is certain, though. DREAMLAND is a ?fantasy?, the vision of a dreamvoyager arriving at and staying in a mythical location beyond and between space and time, a place of strange majesty and surreal spectacles, such as: ?Mountains toppling evermore into seas without a shore?. At the same time it is a ?peaceful, soothing region? ? a mystical ?wonderland? not unlike the fabled Eldorado, whichis mentioned in the poem.Poe biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn called it ?one of Poe´s finest creations?,with each phrase contributing to one effect: a human traveler wandering betweenlife and death.DREAMLAND first appeared in print in America in the June 1844 issue of Graham´s Magazine, and was subsequently published in a June 1845 edition of The Broadway Journal.Poul Ruders, July 2010

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