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