2004


The Winds of Destiny: American Songbook IV

Composed by George Crumb
Text by

Song Collection


The Winds of Destiny: American Songbook IV bears the subtitle "Songs of Strife, Love, Mystery, and Exultation: a Cycle of American Civil War Songs, Folk Songs and Spirituals." The work is for voice, percussion quartet and amplified piano.

Songs

Winds of Destiny: American Songbook IV:

 

1. “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory”
2. “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
3. “Lonesome Road”
4. “Twelve Gates to the City”
5. De Profundis: A Psalm for the Night-Wanderer (Instrumental Interlude)
6. “All My Trials (Death’s Lullaby)”
7. “Go Tell it on the Mountain!”
8. “The Enchanted Valley”
9. “Shenandoah”

Audio

“When Johnny Comes Marching Home” (from “Winds of Destiny: American Songbook IV”)
Thomas Hampson (baritone) & member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center9:54

George Crumb

Composer

Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore

Poet(s)/Writer(s)

2011

Date

Alice Tully Hall

Location

Sheet Music