Whitman Program


A Recital on the Poems of Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
(Program subject to change)

SCOTT GUINN, baritone
Carol Zinavage/Tyson Deaton, piano

War Scenes                                                                                                           Ned Rorem
      A Night Battle                                                                                                      (b. 1923)
      Specimen Case
      An Incident
      Inauguration Ball
      The Real War Will Never Get In the Books
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Drum Taps                                                                                       Richard Pearson Thomas
      O tan-faced prairie boy                                                                                      (b. 1957)
      Beat! Beat! Drums!                                                                                                          
      A sight in camp
      Dirge for two veterans
      Vigil
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Reconciliation                                                                                                        Ned Rorem

Memories of Lincoln                                                                                William H. Neidlinger
                                                                                                                            (1863-1924)
Look Down, Fair Moon                                                                                 Charles Naginski
                                                                                                                            (1909-1940)
----Pause----

Der ich, in Zwischenräumen, in Äonen und Äonen wiederkehre                          Paul Hindemith
(from Drei Hymen von Walt Whitman)                                                               (1862-1941)

As Adam Early in the Morning                                                                               Ned Rorem
Sometimes With One I Love
To a Stranger                                                                                                      David T. Little
                                                                                                                                  (b. 1978)
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Leaves                                                                                                               Craig Urquhart
      Among the Multitude                                                                                            (b. 1953)
      O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
      We Two Boys Together Clinging

Behold This Swarthy Face                                                                                    Gerald Busby
                                                                                                                                  (b. 1934)
We Two                                                                                                  Elinor Remick Warren
                                                                                                                             (1900-1991)
Walt Whitman                                                                                                         Charles Ives
                                                                                                                             (1874-1954)

***To a Stranger commissioned for this program in part with a grant from the Walt Whitman Project, Greg Trupiano, Artistic Director.***