Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later delicate death.
… Approach strong deliveress,
When it is so, when you have taken them I joyously sing the dead,
Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee,
Laved in the flood of thy bliss, O death.
—Walt Whitman (1819-1982)
from "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d"
credits
from An American Requiem,
released September 13, 2016
Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh and Voces Solis
Conducted by Edward Leonard
Christiana Howell, soprano soloist