F. S. Converse - The Mystic Trumpeter: Orchestral Fantasy after Walt Whitman (1904)

The Mystic Trumpeter: Orchestral Fantasy after the Poem by Walt Whitman (1904) [NOTE: To read the score, watch FULL SCREEN in HIGH RESOLUTION] A late Romantic tone poem by American composer Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871-1940). Like many of his contemporaries from New England, Converse studied in Boston with George Whitefield Chadwick and in Munich with Josef Rheinberger. However, his own musical idiom is derived more from Wagner, Strauss and Tchaikovsky - in fact, his music is quite reminiscent of