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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.962490 By Nirvana. By Huddie Ledbetter. Arranged by Kevin J Gardner...
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Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.962490 By Nirvana. By Huddie Ledbetter. Arranged by Kevin J Gardner. Contemporary. Score and parts. 2 pages. Kevin J Gardner #4109517. Published by Kevin J Gardner (A0.962490). Transcription of the song Where Did You Sleep Last Night based on the Unplugged performance.
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Gigi Ceolin
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.982393 By Nirvana. By Huddie Ledbetter. Arranged by Gigi Ceolin. Contemporary. Score. 6 pages. Gig...
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Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.982393 By Nirvana. By Huddie Ledbetter. Arranged by Gigi Ceolin. Contemporary. Score. 6 pages. Gigi Ceolin #6623837. Published by Gigi Ceolin (A0.982393).
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Rick Moose
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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C Instrument - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1095807 By Rick Moose. By Richard Mousseau. Arranged by Richard Mousseau. Contemporary,Country,Folk,Pop...
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C Instrument - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1095807 By Rick Moose. By Richard Mousseau. Arranged by Richard Mousseau. Contemporary,Country,Folk,Pop,Standards. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 3 pages. Moose Hide Music Publishing #699775. Published by Moose Hide Music Publishing (A0.1095807). Folk / Blue Grass. Full score available from publisher. Song available on major streaming services.
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Rick Moose
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Richard Mousseau
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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4 Pedal Drums Banjo,Bass Voice,Electric Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1105023 By Rick Moose. By Richard Mousseau. Arranged by Richard Mouss...
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4 Pedal Drums Banjo,Bass Voice,Electric Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1105023 By Rick Moose. By Richard Mousseau. Arranged by Richard Mousseau. Contemporary,Country,Folk,Pop,Traditional. Full Performance. Duration 175. Moose Hide Music Publishing #708267. Published by Moose Hide Music Publishing (A0.1105023). Folk / Blue Grass.
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Gigi Ceolin
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Gigi Ceolin
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Piano Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.982392 By Nirvana. By Huddie Ledbetter. Arranged by Gigi Ceolin. Contemporary. Score. 2 pages. Gigi Ceoli...
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Piano Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.982392 By Nirvana. By Huddie Ledbetter. Arranged by Gigi Ceolin. Contemporary. Score. 2 pages. Gigi Ceolin #6623839. Published by Gigi Ceolin (A0.982392). Easy solo piano right-hand-melody version in E maj.
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In the Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
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Chris Nole
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In the Pines
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Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Chris Nole. Blues, Folk, New Age, Traditional. Score. 6 pages. Strathmere Music #5178577. Published by Strathmere...
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Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Chris Nole. Blues, Folk, New Age, Traditional. Score. 6 pages. Strathmere Music #5178577. Published by Strathmere Music
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Piano, Vocal and Guitar
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Lead Belly and Nirvana
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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By Lead Belly and Nirvana. Alternative, Rock. Piano/Vocal/Guitar. 4 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital...
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By Lead Belly and Nirvana. Alternative, Rock. Piano/Vocal/Guitar. 4 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital
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Douglas Becker
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Guitar Tab - Easy/Beginner - Digital Download By Lead Belly, Nirvana. Arranged by Douglas Becker. Tablature. 2 pages. Published by Douglas Becker...
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Guitar Tab - Easy/Beginner - Digital Download By Lead Belly, Nirvana. Arranged by Douglas Becker. Tablature. 2 pages. Published by Douglas Becker
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"In The Pines" for trumpet and piano
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Gabriel Clark
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B-Flat Trumpet,Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1166985 Composed by N/A. Arranged by Gabriel Clark. Folk,Traditional. Score and part. 6 pages. ...
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B-Flat Trumpet,Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1166985 Composed by N/A. Arranged by Gabriel Clark. Folk,Traditional. Score and part. 6 pages. GC #767358. Published by GC (A0.1166985). A cover of In the Pines/Where did you Sleep Last Night? for trumpet soloist and piano.
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"In The Pines" for horn and piano
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French Horn,Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1167028 Composed by N/A. Arranged by Gabriel Clark. Folk,Traditional. Score and part. 6 pages. GC ...
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French Horn,Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1167028 Composed by N/A. Arranged by Gabriel Clark. Folk,Traditional. Score and part. 6 pages. GC #767402. Published by GC (A0.1167028). A cover of In the Pines/Where did you Sleep Last Night? for Horn soloist and piano.
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"In The Pines" for trombone and piano
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Gabriel Clark
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Piano,Trombone - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1166979 Composed by N/A. Arranged by Gabriel Clark. Folk,Traditional. Score and part. 6 pages. GC #76...
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Piano,Trombone - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1166979 Composed by N/A. Arranged by Gabriel Clark. Folk,Traditional. Score and part. 6 pages. GC #767352. Published by GC (A0.1166979). A cover of In the Pines/Where did you Sleep Last Night? for trombone soloist and piano.
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The Story Of Reuben Clamzo & His Strange Daughter
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Choral TTBB
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Arlo Guthrie
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Craig Hanson
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The Story Of Reuben Clamzo & H
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Choral Choir (TTBB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1270160 By Arlo Guthrie. By Arlo Guthrie. Arranged by Craig Hanson. A Cappella,Comedy,Folk. Octa...
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Choral Choir (TTBB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1270160 By Arlo Guthrie. By Arlo Guthrie. Arranged by Craig Hanson. A Cappella,Comedy,Folk. Octavo. 6 pages. Edition Craig Hanson #862589. Published by Edition Craig Hanson (A0.1270160). For TTBB chorus a cappella and solo voice. As performed by Arlo Guthrie.Wanna hear something? You know that Indians never ate clams. They didn't have linguini! And so what happened was that clams was allowed to grow unmolested in the coastal waters of America for millions of years. And they got big, and I ain't talking about clams in general, I'm talking about each clam! Individually. I mean each one was a couple of million years old or older. So imagine they could have got bigger than this whole room. And when they get that big, God gives them little feet so that they could walk around easier. And when they get feet, they get dangerous. I'm talking about real dangerous. I ain't talking about sitting under the water waiting for you. I'm talking about coming after you.Imagine being on one of them boats coming over to discover America, like Columbus or something, standing there at night on watch, everyone else is either drunk or asleep. And you're watching for America and the boat's going up and down. And you don't like it anyhow but you gotta stand there and watch, for what? Only he knows, and he ain't watching. You hear the waves lapping against the side of the ship. The moon is going behind the clouds. You hear the pitter patter of little footprints on deck. ‘Is that you kids?’ It ain't! My god! It's this humongous, giant clam!Imagine those little feet coming on deck. A clam twice the size of the ship. Feet first. You're standing there shivering with fear, you grab one of these. This is a belaying pin. They used to have these stuck in the holes all around the ship… You probably didn't know what this is for; you probably had an idea, but you were wrong. They used to have these stuck in the holes all along the sides of the ship, everywhere. You wouldn't know what this is for unless you was that guy that night.I mean, you'd grab this out of the hole, run on over there, bam bam on them little feet! Back into the ocean would go a hurt, but not defeated, humongous, giant clam. Ready to strike again when opportunity was better.You know not even the coastal villages was safe from them big clams. You know them big clams had an inland range of about 15 miles. Think of that. I mean our early pioneers and the settlers built little houses all up and down the coast you know. A little inland and stuff like that and they didn't have houses like we got now, with bathrooms and stuff. They built little privies out back. And late at night, maybe a kid would have to go, and he'd go stomping out there in the moonlight. And all they'd hear for miles around...(loud clap/belch).... One less kid for America. One more smiling, smurking, humongous, giant clam.So Americans built forts. Them forts --you know—them pictures of them forts with the wooden points all around. You probably thought them points was for Indians but that's stupid! 'Cause Indians know about doors. But clams didn't. Even if a clam knew about a door, so what? A clam couldn't fit in a door. I mean, he'd come stomping up to a fort at night, put them feet on them points, jump back crying, tears coming out of them everywhere. But Americans couldn't live in forts forever. You couldn't just build one big fort around America. How would you go to the beach?So what they did was they formed groups of people. I mean they had groups of people all up and down the coast form these little alliances. Like up North it was call the Clamshell Alliance. And farther down South it was called the Catfish Alliance. They had these Alliances all up and down the coast defending themselves against these threatening monsters. These humongous giant clams. Andt hey'd go out there, if there was maybe fifteen of them they'd be singing songs in fifteen part harmony. And when one part disappeared, that's how they knew where the clam would be.Which is why Americans only sing in four part harmony to this very day. That proved to be too dangerous. See, what they did was they'd be singing these songs called Clam Chanties, and they'd have these big spears called clampoons. And they'd be walking up and down the beach and the method they eventually devised where they'd have this guy, the most strongest heavy duty true blue American, courageous type dude they could find and they'd have him out there walking up and down the beach by himself with other chicken dudes hiding behind the sand dunes somewhere.He'd be singing the verses. They'd be singing the chorus, and clams would hear 'em. And clams hate music. So clams would come out of the water and they'd come after this one guy. And all you'd see pretty soon was flying all over the sand flying up and down the beach manmanclamclammanmanclam manclamclamman up and down the beach going this way and that way up the hills in the water out of the water behind the trees everywhere. Finally the man would jump over a big sand dune, roll over the side, the clam would come over the dune, fall in the hole and fourteen guys would come out there and stab the shit out of him with their clampoons.That's the way it was. That was one way to deal with them. The other way was to weld two clams together. [I don't believe it. I'm losing it. Hey. What can you do. Another night shot to hell.] Hey, this was serious back then. This was very serious. I mean these songs now are just piddly folk songs. But back then these songs were controversial. These was radical, almost revolutionary songs. Because times was different and clams was a threat to America. That's right. So we want to sing this song tonight about the one last... You see what they did was there was one man, he was one of these men, his name will always be remembered, his name was Reuben Clamzo, and he was one of the last great clam men there ever was. He stuck the last clam stab. The last clampoon into the last clam that was ever seen on this continent. Knowing he would be out of work in an hour. He did it anyway so that you and me could go to the beach in relative safety. That's right. Made America safe for the likes of you and me. And so we sing this song in his memory. He went into whaling like most of them guys did and he got out of that, when he died. You know, clams was much more dangerous than whales. Clams can run in the water, on the water or on the ground, and they are so big sometimes that they can jump and they can spread their kinda shells and kinda almost fly like one of them flying squirrels.You could be standing there thinking that your perfectly safe and all of a sudden whop.... That's true... And so this is the song of this guy by the name of Reuben Clamzo and the song takes place right after he stabbed this clam and the clam was, going through this kinda death dance over on the side somewhere. The song starts there and he goes into whaling and takes you through the next...I sing the part of the guy on the beach by himself. I go like this: Poor old Reuben Clamzo and you go Clamzo Boys Clamzo. That's the part of the fourteen chicken dudes over on the other side. That's what they used to sing. They'd be calling these clams out of the water. Like taunting them making fun of them. Clams would get real mad and come out. Here we go. I want you to sing it in case you ever have an occasion to join such an alliance. You know some of these alliances are still around. Still defending America against things like them clams. If you ever wants to join one, now you have some historic background. So you know where these guys are coming from. It's not just some 60's movement or something, these things go back a long time.Notice the distinction you're going to have to make now between the first and easy Clamzo Boys Clamzo and the more complicated Clamzo Me Boys Clamzo. Stay serious! Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo I only want to tell you one thing... Folk songs are serious. I said right. Let's do it in C for Clam...Iet's do it in B... For boy that's a big clam... Iet' s do it in G for Gee, I hope that big clam don't see me. Let's do it in F... For …he sees me. Let's do it back in A...for a clam is coming. Better get this song done quick. The Story of Reuben Clamzo and His Strange Daughter in the Key of A.
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music
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Alternative; Pop; Rock. Guitar TAB. 5 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music (HX.338565). - Guitar TAB - Alternative; Pop; Rock - Hal Leonard - D...
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Alternative; Pop; Rock. Guitar TAB. 5 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music (HX.338565). - Guitar TAB - Alternative; Pop; Rock - Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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By Nirvana. Alternative; Pop; Rock. UKE. 3 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music ...
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night
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Let It Be
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Let It Be
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Jeremy Nafziger
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Choral Alto Voice,Bass Voice,Double Bass,Piano and Keyboard,Soprano voice,Tenor Voice,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Interactive Download SKU: A0.481914 By The...
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Choral Alto Voice,Bass Voice,Double Bass,Piano and Keyboard,Soprano voice,Tenor Voice,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Interactive Download SKU: A0.481914 By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Jeremy Nafziger. This edition: Interactive Download. Christmas. Octavo. Duration 286. Jeremy Nafziger #6Re335EyhndYxZ7ALSuj10. Published by Jeremy Nafziger (A0.481914). Key: C major.The Beatles classic with the Advent hymn, In Dulci Jubilo. Both texts come from dreams, and this winds up a meaningful combination. In Dulci was written in the 14th century by German monk and teacher Heinrich Suso (or Seuse), who writes in his third-person autobiography about a dream he had: Now this same angel came up to the Servant [Suso] brightly, and said that God had sent him down to him, to bring him heavenly joys amid his sufferings; adding that he must cast off all his sorrows from his mind and bear them company, and that he must also dance with them in heavenly fashion. Then they drew the Servant by the hand into the dance, and the youth began a joyous song about the infant Jesus, which runs thus: In dulci jubilo... About 650 years later, in 1968, Paul McCartney was staying out late, drinking too much, and thinking that the Beatles were probably going to break up soon. Then one night, somewhere between deep sleep and insomnia, I had the most comforting dream about my mother, who died when I was only 14. She had been a nurse, my mum, and very hardworking, because she wanted the best for us.... At night when she came home, she would cook, so we didn’t have a lot of time with each other. But she was just a very comforting presence in my life. And when she died, one of the difficulties I had, as the years went by, was that I couldn’t recall her face so easily.... So in this dream twelve years later, my mother appeared, and there was her face, completely clear, particularly her eyes, and she said to me very gently, very reassuringly: “Let it be.†It was lovely. I woke up with a great feeling. It was really like she had visited me at this very difficult point in my life and gave me this message: Be gentle, don’t fight things, just try and go with the flow and it will all work out. His mother's name was Mary, or course. He wrote the song in the next few days, and it was released on the album on the same name in 1970, a month after the Beatles split up. As for the actual texts, they're very different. In Dulci is macaronic (alternating between two languages, in this case Latin and a translation from Medieval German) and ecstatic; Let It Be is English and more subdued. In this version, we alternate between the two but keep the Let It Be structure, except for a diversion in the middle where the well-known Bach setting is adopted as kind of an interlude. The two texts and melodies are sung together in the last verse (the fourth In Dulci verse and the third Let It Be verse), where both are talking about music.
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A Whitman Triptych: III. Facing West (Downloadable)
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Soprano voice and tenor voice soli, SATB choir unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8323-E Composed by David Conte. Advanced/C...
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Soprano voice and tenor voice soli, SATB choir unaccompanied - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8323-E Composed by David Conte. Advanced/Collegiate. Secular, 21st Century, Americana, Children, Creation/Nature, Hope/Assurance. Instrument part. 9 pages. Duration 5 minutes, 42 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8323-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8323-E). UPC: 600313483233. English. The three a cappella choral pieces that comprise “A Whitman Triptych†were composed between 2012 and 2014. O Setting Sun was commissioned by the Madison Chamber Choir, Madison, Wisconsin, Anthony Cao, conductor, and was premiered on April 20th, 2012. “What is the Grass†was composed for Cappella SF, Ragnar Bohlin, conductor, and is being premiered on tonight’s concert. Facing West was commissioned in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge by the International Orange Chorale, Zane Fiala, conductor, and was premiered on May 27th, 2012. I first set Whitman to music in 1986,when I adapted part of “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed†as the basis for my composition “Invocation and Dance.†I went on to set “Good-Bye, My Fancy†for Male Chorus and Soprano Saxophone in 1992, and “Song of the Open Road†for Mixed Chorus and Piano in 2004. Like so many composers, I have found the visionary quality of Whitman’s verse inspiring; the vigor and intensity of the poetry seem naturally to draw out music. Facing West is drawn from the Children of Adam book from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The full title of the poem is Facing West From California's Shores. Though Whitman never visited California, his biographer Justin Kaplan made the insightful observation that he imagined California's shores to be the starting point for a journey through time and culture. Here was Walt, 'a child, very old,' facing home again, looking over to it, joyous, as after long travel, growth, and sleep, asking: 'But where is what I started for, so long ago?/And why is it yet unfound?' The invitation from the International Orange Chorale to compose a piece in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge led me easily and naturally to this great poem. The tone of Facing West is rich and complex, and draws on one of Whitman's favorite themes of using travel to distant lands as a metaphor for spiritual development. In his poem, Whitman strikes notes of reflection, of longing for adventure, and ultimately ends with a question. The continuing relevance of this question is for me beautifully addressed by the contemporary American writer Edmund White in his 1980 book States of Desire. To paraphrase somewhat, White writes: California is where dreams may come true, and the problem it presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular dreams to be fulfilled - or would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed? For Americans, California's coast is as far as one can go in establishing new roots and new ways of living. As a transplanted Midwesterner who has made California his home for nearly three decades, I experience the Golden Gate Bridge as a beautiful monument to the aspirations and dreams of a restless and inventive people, qualities that Whitman's poem captures perfectly. -David ConteDuration: 5:42
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