Contemporaneous debut album, 2012
Inspired by the story of her last flight, Mattingly wrote a forty-minute work for chamber orchestra, “Atlas of Somewhere On the Way to Howland Island,” as an homage to her and (forgive him the flight of words; he’s just a kid) “for all those voyagers between horizons; for those—past and present—who have flown into storms, for those floating dreamscapes out beyond the curvature of the sunrise, for those that reach escape velocity, for when even your endless arms can’t rearrange the constellations.”
Dylan Mattingly
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