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Strange - eyed constellations : after "Drummer Hodge" by Thomas Hardy, for baritone and piano / Lowell Dykstra

Publisher's number: 25779
Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: bar piano
Remarks: “Drummer Hodge” is a poem  by Thomas Hardy. However, I chose the wonderful but – in this context - painful expression from the last stanza for the title.
In this poem the soldier, who is sent on a mission in the Second Boer War, is killed in action and buried in a strange and faraway land, his grave “eternally reigned by strange-eyed constellations.”
Duration: 3'45"
Number of players: 2
Year of composition: 2026
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

Author(s):
Dykstra, Lowell (Composer)
Thomas Hardy (Text writer/Librettist)

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