The Walt Whitman/Paul Hindemith connection on the NYPO, 5/11 @ 3:00pm

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Published May 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM EDT

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d: Requiem for Those We Love Walt Whitman wrote the poetry and Paul Hindemith turned it into a requiem for those we love

5/4 Brahms: Symphony No. 4 Schoenberg: Gurrelieder “Song of the Wood Dove,” Verklarte Nacht Brahms: St. Antoni Variations (Florence Quivar, ms; Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez and Lorin Maazel, cond)

5/11 Milhaud: Suite française Stravinsky: Firebird Suite Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d: Requiem for Those We Love Rodgers: The Carousel Waltz (Louise Parker, a; George London, bs; Schola Cantorum; Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith and Richard Rodgers, cond)

5/18 Haydn: Symphony No. 95 Martinu: Piano Concerto No. 4, Incantation Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 (Garrick Ohlsson, p; Xian Zhang, cond)

5/25 Wagner/Maazel: The Ring Without Words (Nathalie Stutzmann, cond)