George Walker: "Lilacs" | The Orchestra Now

Published: 06 December 2022
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The Orchestra Now (TŌN), conducted by Leon Botstein, and soprano Samantha Martin VAP '22 perform George Walker's "Lilacs" in a livestreamed concert from the Fisher Center at Bard on Sep 10, 2022.
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0:49 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d…
3:53 O powerful western fallen star!
5:55 In the dooryard fronting and old farmhouse…
8:46 Sing on you gray brown bird…

George Walker
Born: 6/27/1922 in Washington, D.C.
Died: 8/23/2018 at age 96 in Montclair, NJ

Written: 1955, at age 73
Premiered: 2/1/1996 in Boston; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa,
conductor; Faye Robinson, soprano
Text by Walt Whitman

Concert notes by TŌN violist Batmyagmar Erdenebat at https://ton.bard.edu/george-walkers-l....

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