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Article: Civil War Letter Set to Music
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- The Washington Post
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- May 7, 1996
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The National Gallery's annual American Music Festival, which
will continue next Sunday, is always especially interesting for
those who relish good, neglected music, and Sunday night's program,
given by baritone Gordon Hawkins with pianist Gillian Cookson, was a
prime example of imaginative programming and polished performance.
Except for five of Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs," which
concluded the program, most of the music -- by such composers as
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972), Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920)
and Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) -- was unfamiliar, and all of
it communicated eloquently.
"Major Sullivan Ballou's Letter to His Wife," with a text
written by a ...