Sea Drift (Carpenter)

Sea Drift is a tone poem for orchestra composed by John Alden Carpenter in 1933; it was premiered by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock on November 30, 1933.[1]

It is an example of Impressionist music, inspired by the Walt Whitman's Sea-Drift poems and divided into two sections. Much of the material in the first part is assigned to the horn; in the second, the main theme is stated by the English horn before being repeated by strings.

See also

Sea-Drift, for other works inspired by these poems.

References

[1] http://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/78b1daf8-98c4-4a8e-af55-7cd55a70e654/fullview#page/4/mode/2up

  • David Ewen, Encyclopedia of Concert Music. New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.


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