Walt Whitman's poem inspired Hindemith's music on January 6th. Here's the first stanza of the poem:
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
And thought of him I love.
1/6 Milhaud: Suite française (Darius Milhaud, cond) Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (Igor Stravinsky, cond) Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (Louise Parker, a; George London, bs; Schola Cantorum; Paul Hindemith, cond) Rodgers: The Carousel Waltz (Richard Rodgers, cond)
1/13 Ravel: Suite from Ma Mère l’Oye Barber: Violin Concerto Bartók: The Wooden Prince (Gil Shaham, v; David Robertson, cond)
1/20 Elgar: Cockaigne Overture (Leonard Bernstein, cond) Tallis: Why fum’th in Fight (The Sixteen) Vaughan?Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Dimitri Mitropoulos, cond) Vaughan?Williams: Fantasia on Green Sleeves Britten: Libera Me & Agnus Dei from the War Requiem Holst: The Planets (Carol Vannes, s; Jerry Hadley, t; Thomsas Hampson, bar; Westminster Choir; American Boychoir; Kurt Masur and Zubin Mehta, cond)
1/27 Berlioz: Overture to Les francs?juges Saint?Saëns: Symphony No. 3 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Kent Tritle, org; Sir Andrew Davis and Leonard Bernstein, cond)
