Hindemith's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

- deeply affecting piece (subtitled "Requiem for Those We Love"
- commissioned by Robert Shaw for the Collegiate Chorale, an NYC institution
- music by Paul Hindemith, an immigrant to the US who fled Nazi tyranny, just as our modern day Muslim immigrants are looking to the US for a freer life
- words by Walt Whitman, America's greatest poet, and a resident of NYC (Brooklyn to be exact)

John Maclay