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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

Arrangements by Weill of patriotic songs for narrator, TTBB chorus, and orchestra.

Work Details

Duration

15 minutes

First Performance

30-31 March 1942, recording session for RCA Victor, Helen Hayes, narrator, Roy Shields, cond.

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1) Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe)
2) The Star-Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key)
3) America (Samuel Francis Smith)
4) Beat! Beat! Drums! (Walt Whitman)

Instrumentation
- Narrator
- TTBB Chorus
- 2 Flutes
- 2 Oboes
- 3 Clarinets
- 4 Saxophones
- Bassoon
- 2 French horns
- 2 Trumpets
- 2 Trombones
- Harp
- Organ
- Percussion, timpani
- Strings

Four Walt Whitman Songs 1942

For voice and orchestra on texts by Walt Whitman. Orchestrations of “Beat! Beat! Drums!” and “O Captain! My Captain!” by Kurt Weill (1942). Orchestration of “Come Up from the Fields, Father” by Carlos Surinach (1956). Orchestration of “Dirge for Two Veterans” by Kurt Weill and John Baxindine (1942, 2013).

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