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Walt Whitman and modern music : war, desire, and the trials of nationhood
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- Creator
- edited by Lawrence Kramer
- Format
- Books; Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Garland Pub., 2000
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 0815331541, 9780815331544, 9781138870321, 1138870323
- OCLC
- ocm60660393
- Credits
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- Performers on audio CD: Joan Heller, soprano ; Thomas Stumpf, piano
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audio CD recorded in Caruth Auditorium, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, June 1999.
- "Red war is my song": Whitman, Higginson, and Civil War music / John M. Picker -- "No armpits, please, we're British": Whitman and English music, 1884-1936 / Byron Adams -- Eros, expressionism, and exile: Whitman in German music / Werner Grünzweig and Walter Grünzweig -- Reclaiming Walt: Marc Blitzstein's Whitman settings / David Metzer -- A visionary backward glance: the divided experience in Paul Hindemith's When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd: a requiem "For those we love" / Philip Coleman-Hull -- "I'm an American!" Whitman, Weill, and cultural identity / Kim H. Kowalke -- Three American requiems: contemplating "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / Kathy Rugoff -- Like falling leaves: the erotics of mourning in four Drum-taps settings / Lawrence Kramer
- Audio CD contents. Four Whitman songs. As if a phantom caress'd me (2:29) ; O Hymen! O Hymenee! (1:05) ; As Adam early in the morning (2:38) ; Ages and ages returning at intervals (2:16) / Marc Blitzstein -- Four Whitman songs. Beat! Beat! Drums! (5:09) ; O Captain! My Captain! (4:28) ; Come up from the fields, Father (6:15) ; Dirge for two veterans (5:58) / Kurt Weill -- Apparition. The night in silence under many a star (2:51) ; Vocalise I : Sounds of a summer evening (:55) ; When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (1:13) ; Dark Mother always gliding near (2:23) ; Vocalise 2 : Invocation to the Dark Angel (1:31) ; Approach, strong deliveress! (2:31) ; Vocalise 3 : Death carol (Song of the nightbird) (:31) ; Come lovely and soothing Death (7:17) ; The night in silence under many a star (3:28) / George Crumb -- Three poems by Walt Whitman. I hear America singing (6:31) ; Dirge for two veterans (9:57) ; That music always round me (5:50) / Lawrence Kramer