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| Music Awakens | |
| Text Author: | Walt Whitman |
| Date Completed: | November 2, 2002 |
| Duration: | 3 minutes |
| Instrumentation: | SATB |
| First Performance: | It was given its premiere performance by The University of Akron Concert Choir under the direction of Samuel Gordon, Sunday, April 29, 2007 in Akron Ohio. Rob Frankenberry conducted it for the first time with the CMEA High School Honors Southern Regional, Choir at Platt High School in Meriden CT on January 12, 2019. |
| Comments: | to Robert Frankenberry |
| Program Notes: | The text is excerpted from Walt Whitman's A Song for Occupations: All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments, It is not the violins and the cornets....it is not the oboe nor the beating drums - nor the notes of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza ....nor those of the men's chorus, nor those of the women's chorus, It is nearer and farther than they. |