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John Adams

The Wound-Dresser

The Wound-Dresser is a piece for chamber orchestra and baritone singer by composer John Adams. The piece is an elegiac setting of excerpts from American poet Walt Whitman's poem "The Wound-Dresser"

References#

*The John Adams Earbox, Nonesuch Records, NY 1999

  • Full text of Walt Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser”
  • In the BBC Discovering Music: Listening Library
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John Adams