Two Songs for Voice and Viola on Texts by Walt Whitman sc

1) Song of the Exposition

2) The Hermit Thrush

Instrumentation
Viola, Medium Voice

Composer
Deon Nielsen Price (ASCAP)

Time
9′

Composition Year
1961

Publication Year
1996
Recording Information
Radiance in Motion (Cambria CD #1236, 2016) Darryl Taylor, countertenor; Roland Kato, viola

Review
Review NATSJournal The Listener’s Gallery Gregory Berg National Association of Teachers of Singing 2022

Performance Information
Composed while studying composition with Leslie Basset at the University of Michigan early 1960’s.
First performance in Ann Arbor, MI 1960. Early Los Angeles performances (late 1970’s and 1980’s) by Dale Morich, baritone, with various violists including Roland Kato; Later Los Angeles performances (2015 – 2020) by Darryl Taylor countertenor and Roland Kato.