Four Walt Whitman Songs

Version for low voice and orchestra

Orchestral accompaniment for songs one and two by Kurt Weill, for song four by Kurt Weill and Irving Schlein, for song three by Carlos Surinach (1956)

low voice and orchestra

Edition: Performance material

Series: Four Walt Whitman Songs

Product Details

Description

Kurt Weill set to music three works by American poet Walt Whitman, completing the series five years later by adding a fourth song. Originally for voice and piano, they were later adapted for voice and orchestra by conductor and composer Carlos Surinach and the team of Weill and Irving Schlein. The carefully fashioned piano part of the originals and the fine sensibility with which Weill transformed the poetry’s complex structures into music provide obvious evidence of his training in the European song tradition. At the same time, he employed a decidedly American idiom at certain Points.

Orchestral Cast

2.1.2.bcl.1-2.2.2.0-timp.2perc(vib, tri, sus cym, gong, tam-t, 2military drums, s.d, b.d, chimes)-hp-str

Content

I Beat! Beat! Drums!
II Oh Captain! My Captain!
III Come up from the fields, Father
IV Dirge for Two Veterans

More Information

Title:

Four Walt Whitman Songs

Version for low voice and orchestra

Orchestral accompaniment for songs one and two by Kurt Weill, for song four by Kurt Weill and Irving Schlein, for song three by Carlos Surinach (1956)

Language:

English

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

European American Music Corporation

Year of composition:

1942 - 1947

Duration:

18 ′

Series:

Four Walt Whitman Songs

Technical Details

Product number:

LEA 4214-01

Delivery rights:

Distribution rights for Germany: Schott Music. Distribution rights for Europe excluding Germany: Universal Edition. Distribution rights for all other territories: European American Music Corporation