To Think On You

Description

Audio

Duration

8 min.

Instrumentation

Tenor and piano

Text

Walt Whitman : To A Stranger
Walt Whitman : A Glimpse
Walt Whitman : Oh You Whom I Often and Silently Come

Songs

I. To a Stranger
II. A Glimpse
III. Oh You Whom I Often and Silently Come

Program Notes

To Think on You is a setting of three poems by Walt Whitman.  Each represents a snapshot of love, ordered to reveal a progression from the search for love to the exhilarating obsessiveness of infatuation and finally the deep warmth of a satisfying union.