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Four Walt Whitman Songs

Version for high 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)
high voice and orchestra
Edition: Performance material

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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 high 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 ′

Technical Details

Product number:
LEA 4214-02
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

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  • Four Walt Whitman Songs
    Conductor: Simon Hewett
    Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart
    January 1, 2015 | Stuttgart (Germany) , Staatstheater
    17:00
  • Four Walt Whitman Songs
    "Modern Times" - Metropolregion-Sommer-Musikfest der Deutschen Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz 2013
    Conductor: Karl-Heinz Steffens
    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
    August 22, 2013 | Ludwigshafen (Germany) , Konzertsaal im Pfalzbau
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