Category: Orchestral
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Whitman’s poetry (inclined to the metaphysical, big-boned, gung-ho, ‘go west young soul man’ sort of stuff)† arrives, in the slow movement of A Sea Symphony (On the Beach at Night, Alone), at the perception of a ‘vast similitude’ which ‘compactly hold(s) and enclose(s)’ all things, past, present, and future. Vaughan Williams’ music, though not exactly vast – it’s a…