Autumn Songs

Description

Duration

6 min.

Text

Walt Whitman

Program Notes

I wrote Autumn Songs, settings of short poems by Walt Whitman, for a dear friend of many decades, the soprano Jean Blair. The poems were chosen with Jean’s wonderful character in mind and also as a memorial to her son John Edwin Blair, who was a trained singer with a clear and beautiful tenor voice. I have arranged the poems and their settings in order to tell a story.