Product Number | 9216* |
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Composer/Arranger | Walker, Gwyneth |
Text Author | Whitman, Walt |
Voicing & Instruments | TTBB Chorus unaccompanied |
Difficulty | Medium |
Text Language | English |
Topics (Secular) | Music |
Popular Choral Searches | Female Composer |
Duration | 2:30 |
Publisher | E. C. Schirmer Music Company |
Recording Credits | Performed by Choral Spectrum, Oberlin Musical Union, and the Oberlin Choristers; Ted Williams, Greg Ristow, and Jennifer McCall, directors. |
Walt Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing” (excerpted from Leaves of Grass), with its many references to men singing at their work, seems best suited to the direct and forceful character of unaccompanied men’s chorus. I hear America in song.