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Gordon Binkerd
1916 - 2003
United States of America, NE
| G.W. Binkerd |
Gordon Ware [Gordon] Binkerd (22/05/1916 - 05/09/2003), an American composer, born in Lynch, Nebraska, Usa, died in Urbana, Illinois, USA. He studied at Eastman School and Harvard University. Professor of composition at the Illinois University.
Requiem for soldiers lost in ocean transports
| Period: | Modernism |
| Composed in: | 1984 |
| Musical form: | free |
| Text/libretto: | Herman Melville |
| Duration: | 9' |
| In memory of: | soldiers lost in ocean transports |
Requiem for soldiers lost in ocean transports (1984) for unaccompanied mixed SATB voices. Text by Herman Melville (1819-1891), an American author, best-known for his novels of the sea and his masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851).
| H. Melville (text) |