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Palm Beach Symphony Premieres Joseph Schwantner's Sojourn

Mar. 29, 2023

Joseph Schwanter's Sojourn for orchestra was premiered by the Palm Beach Symphony under the baton of Gerard Schwarz on March 14 at The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in Palm Beach, Florida. The composer describes the inspiration behind the work:

"Poetry plays an important role in my music and provides a seemingly limitless reservoir of musical ideas derived from the imagery that poetry provokes. This work, a musical ‘sojourn’, embraces Henry David Thoreau’s profoundly touching words that perfectly encapsulate the transcendental spirit of 19th-century New England life.

As an essayist, author, poet and philosopher, Thoreau produced a voluminous series of introspective journals and other writings that recount his daily life with keen observations about natural history and its relationship to man. In addition, frequent references to music occur in his writing, ‘Music is the sound of the circulation in nature’s veins.'"

Listen to Joseph Schwantner's Sparrows (1978):

Eastman Wind Ensemble/Kathryn Lewek, soprano/Mark Scatterday, conductor

To learn more about Joseph Schwantner, visit: schott-music.com.

Joseph Schwantner
Sojourn: Reflections on Thoreau (2022)
for orchestra
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Sojourn was commissioned by Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter in honor of Dr. Joel Kassimir

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