Annotation
To What You Said (1977) - This song is Leonard Bernstein’s setting of Walt Whitman’s unpublished, incomplete poem/letter “To What You Said.” A magnificent mixture of personal pathos and public plea for tolerance and understanding, the piece comes from a cycle called Songfest. Originally a Bicentennial commission, the song cycle’s texts are all by American poets.
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Annotation last modified on 2011-11-05 10:29 UTC.
Relationships
| lyricist: | Walt Whitman (19th c. American poet, essayist, and journalist) |
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| composer: | Leonard Bernstein (American conductor, composer, pianist) (in 1977) |
| part of: | Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra (order: 4) |
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Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| 1977-12-12 | Songfest: IV. To What You Said... | Donald Gramm, National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein | 5:29 | |
| 1989-09 | To What You Said | Steven Blier | 5:09 | |
| 1992-04-20 – 1992-04-21 | Songfest: II. Three Solos: 3. To What You Said … | John Cheek, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | 5:38 | |
| 2023-04-15 – 2023-04-16 | Anniversaries for Orchestra: X. For Felicia Montealegre / Interview (Dialogue) / Songfest: To What You Said (Solo 3) | London Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet‐Séguin | 6:07 | |
| Songfest: No. 4. To What You Said | Patrick Guetti, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, James Judd | 5:36 | ||
| To What You Said | Thomas Hampson, Craig Rutenberg | 5:34 | ||
| To What You Said | Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles | 3:37 | ||