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Program
Walt Whitman
Selected Works from Leaves of Grass and other poems
Reading in English
Settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Ives, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, George Crumb, Oliver Knussen

Loafe with me and the grass, loose the stop from your throat,
Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best,
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

For the season’s first Lied und Lyrik program, soprano Claron McFadden and curator Julius Drake have chosen the foremost American poet of the 19th century and one of the trailblazers of literary modernism: Walt Whitman. His revolutionary poetry, which foregoes traditions of form and strict rhyming patterns, has inspired composers far beyond the United States. At the Pierre Boulez Saal, excerpts from Leaves of Grass, the collection Whitman kept working on throughout his life, will be heard in settings by Charles Ives, Leonard Bernstein, George Crumb, and others, as well as read in the original English.

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Pierre Boulez Saal
Französische Straße 33 D
10117 Berlin
LIED UND LYRIK: WALT WHITMAN
Claron McFadden & Julius Drake
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