This man inspired a “secular” cantata that Virgil Thomson called “superficially warlike,” subtitled A Free Song. Baritone Nmon Ford premiered a Jennifer Higdon piece inspired by this man, which draws on a 1946 oratorio written after FDR’s death. Faye Robinson and the Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered a 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning piece for voice and orchestra named for a work by this man, the most famous piece by George Walker. A B-flat minor brass fanfare on the word (*) “Behold” opens a symphony inspired by this author, whose fourth movement, “The Explorers,” has the orchestra imitate a ship carrying away the soul. Three poems by this author inspired the Dona nobis pacem by a composer who also used his poems for A Sea Symphony. For 10 points, name this author who inspired Paul Hindemith’s oratorio When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. ■END■
ANSWER: Walt Whitman
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