{"id":583,"date":"2024-09-09T15:17:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T19:19:05","slug":"whitman-songs-the-coming-of-spring-new-recordings-and-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/whitman-songs-the-coming-of-spring-new-recordings-and-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitman Songs & The Coming of Spring: New Recordings and Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMatthew Marco and Joe Dan Harper performing at the Burchfield Penney Art Center on August 4.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Last month the Burchfield Penney Art Center<\/strong> in Buffalo, NY presented Buffalo Opera Unlimited<\/strong> in a full concert of my opera and art songs\u00a0comparing the works of two iconic American artists: painter\u00a0Charles E. Burchfield\u00a0and poet\u00a0Walt Whitman.<\/p>\n

This special\u00a0program included three art song settings of Walt Whitman for tenor and piano:\u00a0a World Premiere (Proofs of Coming Fullness<\/em>)\u00a0and two brand new arrangements of existing works (The Open Road<\/em> and Laws for Creations<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The artists also performed a semi-staged production of The Coming of Spring, <\/em>my monodrama based on Charles E. Burchfield’s life and writings,\u00a0in a new piano reduction score.<\/p>\n

Check out\u00a0my YouTube playlist<\/a>\u00a0for live recordings of all of the above, and follow the links below for lyrics, program notes, and perusal scores for each of these works, which are all scored for tenor and piano:<\/p>\n