Name: O You Whom I Often And Silently Come
Duration: 1 min 16 s
Channel: Daniel Powers
Description: "O You Whom I Often And Silently Come" is a song by Daniel Powers. A song for voice and piano, text by Walt Whitman. Winner of the 2003 Ned Rorem Award for Song Composition.

O You Whom I Often And Silently Come

Daniel Powers

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A song for voice and piano, text by Walt Whitman. Winner of the 2003 Ned Rorem Award for Song Composition.

Daniel Powers

Daniel Powers is composer-in-residence with the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, and teaches composition and music theory at Indiana State University. He has degrees in composition from Oberlin College and Indiana University. His teachers have included Rudi Martinus Van Dijk, Joseph Wood, Earle Brown, Fred Fox, and Harvey Sollberger. He is married to pianist Martha Krasnican, who also teaches at Indiana State University.

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Genre

Classical • Contemporary

Author

Daniel Powers

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September 28, 2008

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MP3

MP3 1.2 MB • 128 kbps • 1:16

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O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
Walt Whitman

O you whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you, 
As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, 
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

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