Sea Drift (Carpenter)

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Sea Drift is a tone poem for orchestra composed by John Alden Carpenter in 1933; it was premiered by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock on November 30, 1933.[1]

It is an example of Impressionist music, inspired by the Walt Whitman's Sea-Drift poems and divided into two sections. Much of the material in the first part is assigned to the horn; in the second, the main theme is stated by the English horn before being repeated by strings.

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[1] http://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/78b1daf8-98c4-4a8e-af55-7cd55a70e654/fullview#page/4/mode/2up

David Ewen, Encyclopedia of Concert Music. New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.

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Leaves of Grass (1855–1892)	"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865) "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1856) "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day" (1865) "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855) "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (1868) "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865) "One Hour to Madness and Joy" (1860) "One's Self I Sing" (1867) "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1859) "Patrolling Barnegat" (1856) "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865) "Prayer of Columbus" (1874) "The Sleepers" (1855) "Song of Myself" (1855) "Song of the Open Road" (1856) "There Was a Child Went Forth" (1855) "This Dust Was Once the Man" (1871) "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865) Sections Calamus Sea-Drift Drum-Taps
Other works	List of poems Franklin Evans (1842) Life and Adventures of Jack Engle (1852) Democratic Vistas (1871) Passage to India (1871)
Adaptations	Elegiac Ode (1884) Sea Drift (1906) A Sea Symphony (1909) Ode to Death (1919) Morning Heroes (1930) Sea Drift (1933) Dona nobis pacem (1936) Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song (1942) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946) The Wound-Dresser (1989) Lilacs (1996) Symphony No. 2 (1999) Dooryard Bloom (2004)
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