For orchestra, mixed choir and SATB soloists
Duration: 55 minutes
| 1) |
Beat Beat Drums! |
Whitman |
| 2) |
Ode of the War Wife |
Doan Thi Diem (Vietnamese) |
| 3) |
Ode of the War Wagons |
Whitman |
| 4) |
Look Down Fair Moon |
Dufu (Chinese) |
| 5) |
Love |
Majnun Laila (Arabic, anon.) |
| 6) |
Year that Trembled |
Whitman |
| 7) |
The Wound Dresser |
Whitman |
| 8) |
Prayer |
Marot (French) |
| 9) |
Agnus Dei |
Traditional liturgy |
NOTES
Drum Taps is a nine-movement song cycle setting poems from around the world that deal with the human experience of war. Four poems by American poet Walt Whitman, drawn from his Drum Taps series on the Civil War form an American journey through the experience of war from exhilaration to heartbreak. Interwoven amongst these are five poems from other parts of the world- China and Vietnam, the Arab world and Europe.
The Wound Dresser
One of Walt Whitman's most famous poems is "The Wound Dresser" which reflects upon his experiences as an assistant at a hospital for wounded in Washington DC- just miles from the front lines. My text comprises selected parts of the much longer poem but retains the flow and essential meaning of the full text. This setting for tenor and orchestral winds is the seventh of the nine-movement song cycle "Drum Taps."
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