Opus 59a
To All, To Each (1973)
for SATB Chorus
Text by Walt Whitman
Text by Walt Whitman
Duration: 5 min.
Dedication: to Walter Simmons
Premiere: 2016; Collectio Musicorum (New York, NY); J. Dailey
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This madrigal on a text by Walt Whitman (“Come, lovely and soothing death”) is an extract from the composer’s large-scale Requiem.
“Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each.”
(from “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”)