Having been inspired by the poem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, by American poet Walt Whitman, which had been written as an elegy to Abraham Lincoln, Gustav Holst composed his Ode to Death, for choral and orchestra in the wake of World War I. It is now seen by many as Holst's most beautiful choral piece.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Music in the Aftermath of World War I
Having been inspired by the poem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, by American poet Walt Whitman, which had been written as an elegy to Abraham Lincoln, Gustav Holst composed his Ode to Death, for choral and orchestra in the wake of World War I. It is now seen by many as Holst's most beautiful choral piece.
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