Poster Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
George C. Cox
Performance Today®

Balm for the soul

He was a poet, a lover, and a provocateur. The words of Walt Whitman speak to us as Americans and as human beings. On this episode of Performance Today, join us for music that celebrates the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Christos Hatzis: String Quartet No 1: Movement 4
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Awakening
EMI Classics 5 58038 2

Aram Khachaturian: Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano: Movement 3
Stas Chernyshev, clarinet; Eliran Avni, piano; Brendan Speltz, violin
Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, Brooks Center for the Performing Arts Clemson, SC

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 135
St. Lawrence String Quartet
South Carolina Public Radio and Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Ben Hippen: American Nocturne
Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra; Benjamin Loeb, conductor
Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Lviv National Philharmonie, Lviv, Ukraine

Hour 2

Kurt Weill: Walt Whitman Cycle: Movement 2 O Captain! My Captain!
Steven Kimbrough, Baritone; Dalton Baldwin, Piano
This Is The Life
Arabesque 6579

Carlo Farina: Capriccio Stravagante
Soovin Kim, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang & Pierre Lapointe, violas; Brook Speltz, cello; Scott Pingel, bass; Gilbert Kalish, harpsichord
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA

Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81: Movements 3 & 4
Yekwon Sunwoo, piano; Jeff Thayer, violin; Ling Ling Huang, violin; Abhijit Sengupta, viola; Jennifer Humphreys, cello
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Jackson Hole, WY

Steven Sametz: Not an End of Loving: We Two Boys Together Clinging
Chanticleer; Matthew Oltman, Music Director
Chanticleer by Request
Chanticleer Records 2284

Brian Prechtl: Grand is the Seen
Brian Prechtl, percussion; Edward Stephan, percussion; John Kinzie, percussion; Michael Mulcahy, narrator
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Jackson Hole, WY

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