walt whitman sail forth steer for the deep waters only

Walt whitman sail forth steer for the deep waters only free#

Billy Collins (Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems). This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 15-16 Season opening, Benjamin Britten, blog-site, chorus, classical music, concert, conductor, English Symphony, Four Sea Interludes, Gergely Vajda, Gregory Vajda, huntsville, Huntsville Symphony, Leaves of Grass, oratorio, orchestra, Passacaglia, Peter Grimes, Ralph Vaughan Williams, symphony, vocal music, von braun center, Walt Whitman by admin. Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry. He was paid one million the night before and was to get the rest the following night, but. O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God? The crew made a deal with a French navigator: two million francs to maneuver the ship into open waters. Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,įor we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,Īnd we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. Sail forth-steer for the deep waters only, I hope you can join us on our MUSICAL JOURNEY of this season! Other compositions on our 61st Season opening concerts are:įour Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten. Tonight the Huntsville Community Chorus and the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra with the help of vocal soloists Tiffany Bostic-Brown and Terrance Brown will celebrate the human spirit and the power of live classical music with the Huntsville premiere performance of A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams. Sail forth steer for the deep waters only Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves. I have to praise his openness and his imagination in selecting parts of Whitman’s work for the first, and longest of his 9 symphonies. Apparently Vaughan Williams carried a copy of Leaves of Grass with him at all times.

Walt whitman sail forth steer for the deep waters only free#

Suspicious at best! 🙂 I find it interesting how a young English composer picks a collection of poems by an American poet written in (mostly) free verse to put into music. Indeed, Leaves of Grass praises nature and the individual(!) human’s role in it and elevates the human form and mind to the level of topic of poetic praise. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to. Just 20 years after it was deemed “obscene literature” by Boston district attorney, Oliver Stevens on March 1, 1882, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman became the inspiration for Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No.1, A Sea Symphony. Sail forth steer for the deep waters only Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me.