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WALT WHITMAN – ORIGINAL SCORE


Price: $15.95
Item Number: MM155
Untitled Document
This CD, featuring music by Emmy Award winning composer, Joel Goodman, contains the original score to the acclaimed 2008 PBS film, American Experience: Walt Whitman.  Goodman’s score reflects a Whitman who is always new, and free, but never less than complex.    Blending soaring melodies, emotive solo piano passages and complex poly-rhythms, Goodman has created a modern collage that beautifully captures the essence of Walt Whitman the poet, the modernist and the revolutionary.   Enhance your music collection with this magnificent CD.  Running Time: 44:45
TRACK LIST

Joel Goodman

1.    I Celebrate Myself   (1:46)

2.    Flood   (1:29)

3.    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry   (3:01)
4.    The Contrarian   (1:29)
5.    Bodies Entwined   (2:10)
6.    Emerson’s Letter   (1:50)
7.    New Orleans   (2:09)
8.    Lincoln   (2:18)
9.    Aroma Finer Than Prayer   (1:14)
10.   New York   (1:20)
 
11.   That Could Be Me   (2:45)
12.   Slave Auction   (4:17)
13.   Hospital Wards   (3:56)
14.   Brooklyn   (2:03)
15.   Pfaff’s   (1:26)
16.   Sore And Heavy Hearted   (2:46)
17.   That Night I Was Happy   (1:42)
18.   Wound Dresser   (1:57)
19.   Suture   (1:46)
20.   Sensual Experience   (1:15)
21.   Breeze   (1:45)
ARTWORK
 
Frontispiece to Leaves of Grass containing image of Walt Whitman  [CD Cover]

Photograph of Walt Whitman's notebook

Steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison