Sea Drift (Carpenter)

Sea Drift is a tone poem for orchestra composed by John Alden Carpenter in 1933; it was premiered by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock on November 30, 1933.[1] Impressionist music inspired by the Walt Whitman poems Sea-Drift, it is in two sections. Much of the material in the first part is assigned to the horn; in the second, the main theme is stated by the English horn before being repeated by strings.

References

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass (1855–1892)	"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1855) "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day" (1865) "I Sing the Body Electric" (1865) "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (1891) "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865) "One Hour to Madness and Joy" (1860) "One's Self I Sing" (1867) "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1859) "Patrolling Barnegat" (1856) "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865) "Prayer of Columbus" (1900) "Song of Myself" (1855) "Song of the Open Road" (1856) "This Dust Was Once the Man" (1871) "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865) Sections Calamus Sea-Drift Drum-Taps

Other works	Franklin Evans (1842) Democratic Vistas (1871)

Adaptations	Elegiac Ode (1884) Sea Drift (1906) A Sea Symphony (1909) Ode to Death (1919) Morning Heroes (1930) Sea Drift (1933) Dona nobis pacem (1936) Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song (1942) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946) The Wound-Dresser (1989) Lilacs (1996) Symphony No. 2 (1999) Dooryard Bloom (2004)

Life and honoraria	Walt Whitman Award Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site Walt Whitman House The Long Islander Walt Whitman Bridge Walt Whitman High School (Maryland) Walt Whitman High School (New York) Walt Whitman Shops

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