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| Autumn Songs | |
| Text Author: | Walt Whitman |
| Date Completed: | October 27, 1997 |
| Duration: | 6 minutes |
| Instrumentation: | soprano or tenor voice and piano |
| First Performance: | Robert Frankenberry, tenor and Eric Moe, piano on a Music on the Edge concert at the University of Pittsburgh, November 17, 1998 |
| Comments: | for Jean Blair A pdf of this score is available for purchase at newmusicshelf.com |
| Program Notes: | I wrote Autumn Songs, settings of short poems by Walt Whitman, for a dear friend of many decades, the soprano Jean Blair. The poems were chosen with Jean's wonderful character in mind and also as a memorial to her son John Edwin Blair, who was a trained singer with a clear and beautiful tenor voice. I have arranged the poems and their settings in order to tell a story. |