Sea Drift (Carpenter)
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Sea Drift is a tone poem for orchestra composed by John Alden Carpenter in 1933; it was premiered by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock on November 30, 1933.[1]
It is an example of Impressionist music, inspired by the Walt Whitman's Sea-Drift poems and divided into two sections. Much of the material in the first part is assigned to the horn; in the second, the main theme is stated by the English horn before being repeated by strings.
