Episode #1018
Hampson Performs The Wound Dresser
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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Thomas Hampson, baritone (Hampsong.com)
On this episode of New York Philharmonic This Week, the orchestra's first artist-in-residence, the baritone Thomas Hampson, performs The Wound Dresser, John Adams' 1988 piece based on Walt Whitman's text of that title.
The piece, which has never been performed by the Philharmonic, recounts Whitman’s work caring for injured Union soldiers during the Civil War.
The program also includes Haydn’s contemplative Symphony No. 49 in F minor, Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and Berg’s wrenching Three Orchestral Pieces (Op. 6).
Program Details:
Haydn: Symphony No. 49, La Passione
John Adams: The Wound Dresser
Schubert: Symphony in B minor, Unfinished
Alan Berg: Three Orchestral Pieces
For more information about this program, including videos and program notes, please visit the New York Philharmonic's Web site
Comments [3]
Up here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, I
just listened to the performance of "The
Wound Dresser" John Adams' setting
of the Walt Whitman poem...
a "Bravo! Bravo!" performance by
the soloist Thomas Hampson and by
John Adams, composer. Very moving.
I liked The Wound Dresser.
He wasn't bad
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