If you are searching for Whitman-related events in the the New York area, please also check the Walt Whitman Birthplace website (we highly recommend the tours of the house Whitman Sr. built and Walt lived in for his first four years) and the Whitman House in Camden, NJ (step inside Walt’s home for his last decade).
If you have an event you’d like to list with us, please let us know: waltwhitmaninitiaitve@gmail.com.
Grace Chorale once again offers a diverse, soul-stirring repertoire in an inspiring setting. Bob Lewis of Fulton Stall Market -- beloved partners of WWI -- is among the featured voices.
This celebratory concert features works by Aaron Copeland, Leonard Bernstein, Ricky Ian Gordon and Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra Director Gary Fagin. WWI president Karen Karbiener will join Fagin in a conversation about how Whitman's words and works resonate with the current state of democracy.
Florilegium Chamber Choir will open their 44th season with a bicentennial tribute to the American poet Walt Whitman. The program explores Whitman’s words through settings by Randall Thompson, Norman Dello Joio, René Clausen, and others. Central to the program is Jeffrey Van's four-movement song cycle for choir and guitar, A Procession Winding Around Me, poignant [...]
