The Longfellow Chorus

On October 19, 2025, Sing Omaha will perform my Longfellow choral setting, "The Skeleton in Armor," which is my favorite Longfellow composition, even over "Snow-Flakes." Here's the premiere recording with The Longfellow Chorus, March 2012, First Congregational Church, South Portland. We performed Elgar's wild Longfellow cantata, "Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf," and Arve Tellefsen was guest violin soloist for works by Ole Bull. So, there's a lot of Elgar (and Bull) in the choral voicing of and compositional approach to "Skeleton." The poem actually is autobiographical on Longfellow's part. It fictionalizes his romance with his second wife, Boston's Frances "F***y" Appleton Longfellow, with perhaps an element from his first marriage to Portland's Mary Potter Longfellow, who died in 1835 in the Netherlands after a stillborn birth.

The Skeleton in Armor (SATB Chorus, Flute, Oboe/English Horn, Clarinet and Piano) My setting of the Longfellow poem "The Skeleton in Armor," for SATB chorus, flute, oboe/English horn and piano, was premiered at our 2012 Longfellow Choral F...

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