The Enchantment Suite is comprised of 4 movements, which correspond to a written program:

“What seek you? Say! And what do you expect?”

“I know not what; the Unknown I would have!

What’s known to me is endless; I would go Beyond the end. The last word still is wanting.”

I. INCANTATION:

A soul obsessed by a desire for the unattainable, journeying on an endless quest, wanders into a pagan temple, and there yields to an overpowering impulse of the moment to utter and Incantation before the shrine of an unknown goddess.

II. SONG OF THE SHRINE:

From somewhere far within the shrine a mysterious voice answers - a “voice of molten melody Singing love that may not be”

III. DANCE OF DESIRE:

A drum beats, and a gong sounds; strange shapes assemble for a carnival of passion, into whose company and revelry the soul finds itself drawn irresistibly. In the urge of the music the Incantation mingles with the now mocking Song of the Shrine. After a mad swirl, there is a final crash, at the sound of which the apparitions vanish.

IV. BEYOND THE DREAM:

And, as in a vision, the soul sees itself transfigured, appearing unto itself as an ever-shifting shoal of pale, opalescent fire, from which there rises in a visible exhalation, like smoke from smoldering incense, the still unsatisfied longing for the unattainable.