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The Wound-Dresser
The Wound-Dresser is a nineteen minute-long piece by minimalist composer John Adams for orchestra and baritone singer. The piece is an elegiac setting of excerpts from American poet Walt Whitman's The Wound-Dresser (1865) about his experience as a nurse during the American Civil War. It was written in 1989 for baritone singer Sanford Sylvan.

References

  • The John Adams Earbox, Nonesuch Records, NY 1999

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