Sea Drift (Carpenter)
Sea Drift is a tone poem for orchestra composed by John Alden Carpenter in 1933; it was premiered by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock on November 30, 1933. Impressionist music inspired by the Walt Whitman poems "Sea-Drift", it is in two sections. Much of the material in the first part is assigned to the horn; in the second, the main theme is stated by the English horn before being repeated by strings. See also. "Sea-Drift", for other works inspired by these poems. References.  http://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/78b1daf8-98c4-4a8e-af55-7cd55a70e654/fullview#page/4/mode/2up