The cantata The Lovers was completed late in his career, Hermit Songs  was first sung by Leontyne Price, while his work Knoxville  was inspired by James Agee.
The cantata The Lovers was completed late in his career, Hermit Songs  was first sung by Leontyne Price, while his work Knoxville  was inspired by James Agee. He premiered a setting of Dover Beach  on NBC in 1935 and spent some time in the early 1950s composing ballets including, Souvenirs  and Medea's Meditation , but he found greater acclaim for choral works like Prayers of Kierkegaard  and the opera Vanessa . FTP identify this composer of 2 symphonies, famed for The Rose Tree , the Capricorn Concerto  and the Adagio for Strings .
The cantata The Lovers was completed late in his career, Hermit Songs  was first sung by Leontyne Price, while his work Knoxville  was inspired by James Agee.
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