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 .
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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