{"id":673,"date":"2015-08-05T05:34:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T09:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=673"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:20:22","slug":"leaving-lute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/leaving-lute\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Lute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Leaving Lute\u00a0(2011)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">for\u00a0flute, viola, and harp [7:00]<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/composersedition.com\/christopher-trapani-leaving-lute\/\">SCORE<\/a> at COMPOSERS EDITION<\/em><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A90558023&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=false&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/christophertrapani\" title=\"Christopher Trapani\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Christopher Trapani<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/christophertrapani\/leaving-lute\" title=\"Leaving Lute\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Leaving Lute<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px; padding-right: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8220;Having lived in Paris unfits you for living anywhere, including Paris.&#8221; \u2014 John Ashbery, quoted by David Lehman in <em>The Last Avant Garde<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Leaving Lute<\/em> is a seven-minute encapsulation of seven years spent in Paris (with a brief intermezzo in Istanbul): seven segments, each announced by a new orchestration of the same treble chord, tracing a steady slide from enchantment into disillusionment. 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