Symphony No. 7, "A Sea Symphony"
- Symphony No. 7, "A Sea Symphony"
The seventh symphony by Howard Hanson, subtitled "A Sea Symphony", is a work for chorus and orchestra commissioned by the National Music Camp in 1974 to commemorate its fiftieth season at Interlochen, Michigan in 1977.
Dedicated to Joseph. E. Maddy, founder of Interlochen and a close friend of Hanson, this was the last major symphonic work written by Hanson. Like Ralph Vaughan Williams's first symphony and the symphony for voices by Roy Harris, Hanson's symphony symphony is set to texts by Walt Whitman describing the a voyage of ocean exploration as a metaphor of life transiting into death.
About composing the work, Hanson remarked, "I had wanted to write the piece all my life and when I finally got at it--I was eighty--I had no trouble. It came out just as if I were thirty or even twenty-five, and I had no inhibitions about it. I didn't work on it, I didn't go over it, I didn't redo it--whoosh--it came like that!" [David Russell Williams in "Perspectives of New Music", Vol. 20, No. 1/2 (Autumn, 1981 - Summer, 1982), pp. 12-25,]
The symphony is set in three movements:
*"Lo! The Unbounded Sea" (largamente);
*"The Untold Want" (Adagio);
*"Joy! Shipmate, Joy!" (Allegretto molto).
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