Charles Fussell (b. 1938)

Specimen Days; Being Music.

Koch International Classics.
David Hoose, conductor, 1995.
Featuring Sanford Sylvan, baritone, and the Lydian String Quartet.
CD $16

Being Music (1993) 14:36

for baritone and string quartet
text from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"

Sanford Sylvan, baritone
Lydian String Quartet:
Daniel Stepner and Judith Eissenberg, violins
Mary Ruth Ray, viola
Rhonda Rider, cello

Specimen Days (1992)

"Quicksand years that whirl me I know not where"
Cantata for Baritone Solo, Chorus and Orchestra

Text compiled and adapted from the works of Walt Whitman with original material by Will Graham

Cantata Singers
Sanford Sylvan, baritone
David Hoose, conductor

I. Prelude - Aerial Voices 7:20
II. Calamus Voices 5:32
III. Irretrievable Voices 9:46
IV. Earth Voices 5:54
V. Heavenly Voices 9:14

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