Music
In 1936 the German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann used parts of "Lilacs" in an intended Cantata for soprano and orchestra. It ultimately formed the second movement of his designated First Symphony.
Conductor Robert Shaw commissioned another German, Paul Hindemith, during his wartime exile in the United States, to set the text of "Lilacs" to music in his Requiem for those we love (1946). There is also a cantata by Roger Sessions setting this poem, written in 1971. David Conte extracted text from the poem for use in his "Invocation & Dance" (1989). George Crumb composed Apparition in 1979, using the text of "Lilacs", mostly from the "Death Carol" section of the poem. Kurt Weill uses the third stanza in his musical Street Scene. In 1996, George Walker used the poem as the basis for his Pulitzer Prize-winning work Lilacs for voice and orchestra.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“The manner in which Americans “consume” music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie—it’s consumed that way without any regard for how and why it’s made.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1994)
“Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)