UW Choral Union with UW Symphony Orchestra

Sat April 29 (8 PM) and Sun April 30 (7:30 PM). Mills Hall.

Beverly Taylor, conductor.

Presenting Paul Hindemith’s When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d (text by Walt Whitman).

A rarely done work because of its difficulty, this is an outstanding setting of Walt Whitman’s poem written about the death of Abraham Lincoln, and the train that carried his body to Springfield, Illinois.  The work was commissioned by Robert Shaw in memory of Franklin Roosevelt, whose funeral train carried his dead body from Georgia back to Washington.  The work is in memory of “those we loved.”

Beverly Taylor, conductor.

Ticketed: $15 adults, $8 students.