![]() ![]() Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,įor we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,Īnd we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. Sail forth-steer for the deep waters only, I hope you can join us on our MUSICAL JOURNEY of this season! Other compositions on our 61st Season opening concerts are:įour Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten. Tonight the Huntsville Community Chorus and the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra with the help of vocal soloists Tiffany Bostic-Brown and Terrance Brown will celebrate the human spirit and the power of live classical music with the Huntsville premiere performance of A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams. ![]() I have to praise his openness and his imagination in selecting parts of Whitman’s work for the first, and longest of his 9 symphonies. Apparently Vaughan Williams carried a copy of Leaves of Grass with him at all times. Suspicious at best! □ I find it interesting how a young English composer picks a collection of poems by an American poet written in (mostly) free verse to put into music. Indeed, Leaves of Grass praises nature and the individual(!) human’s role in it and elevates the human form and mind to the level of topic of poetic praise. Quoting Walt Whitman in Passage to India - Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only, Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me. Just 20 years after it was deemed “obscene literature” by Boston district attorney, Oliver Stevens on March 1, 1882, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman became the inspiration for Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No.1, A Sea Symphony. ![]()
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