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Re: Hindemith Choral Work?
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Bernard Chasan <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:07:26 -0500
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Bernard Chasan wrote:

>Paul Hindemith died in December 1963, a month later than JFK's
>assassination.  However a great choral work in tribute to JFK was
>written by Roger Sessions - "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd."

The work was not written in tribute to JFK as I previously stated.
The claim that it is a great choral work stands.  The Whitman poem
was a response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Bernard Chasan

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