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Huntington Woodman
1861 - 1943
United States of America, NY
Raymond Huntington [Huntington] Woodman (18/01/1861 - 25/12/1943), an American composer. Woodman studied under his father, Jonathan Woodman; Dudley Buck of New York; and Caesar Franck of Paris. He began his musical career singing at St. George’s Church in Long Island, New York, then at age 18 became organist at Christ Church in Norwich, Connecticut. He went on to serve as organist and choirmaster at the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York (1880-1941); professor of music at Packer Collegiate Institute; warden of the Guild of American Organists; and vice-president of the Department of Music at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
Requiem
"Requiem", published 1932, for voice and piano, in Music of Many Lands and Peoples.
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie; Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. Here may the winds about me blow, Here the sea may come and go Here lies peace forevermo' And the heart for aye shall be still. This be the verse you grave for me: "Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill."
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