Editing Walt Whitman (section)

===Music and audio recordings===
Whitman's poetry has been set to music by more than 500 composers; indeed it has been suggested that his poetry has been set to music more than that of any other American poet except for [[Emily Dickinson]] and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.americancomposers.org/rel990515.htm|title=American Composers Orchestra – May 15, 1999 – Walt Whitman & Music<!-- Bot generated title -->|access-date=June 13, 2010|archive-date=April 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427030321/http://www.americancomposers.org/rel990515.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Sommerfeld, Paul (May 8, 2019), [https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2019/05/celebrating-walt-whitman/ "Celebrating Walt Whitman's 200th Birthday"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824093703/https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2019/05/celebrating-walt-whitman/ |date=August 24, 2022 }}, ''In the Muse Performing Arts Blog'', Library of Congress.</ref> Those who have set his poems to music include [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]]; [[Ernst Bacon]]; [[Leonard Bernstein]]; [[Benjamin Britten]]; [[Rhoda Coghill]]; [[David Conte]]; [[Ronald Corp]]; [[George Crumb]]; [[Frederick Delius]]; [[Howard Hanson]]; [[Karl Amadeus Hartmann]]; [[Hans Werner Henze]]; [[Bernard Herrmann]];<ref>Music to accompany ''Whitman'', a radio play by [[Norman Corwin]]</ref>[[Jennifer Higdon]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jenniferhigdon.com/pdf/program-notes/Dooryard-Bloom.pdf|title=PROGRAM NOTES: "Dooryard Bloom"|access-date=August 4, 2024|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125654/http://www.jenniferhigdon.com/pdf/program-notes/Dooryard-Bloom.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Paul Hindemith]];<ref>[[When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (Hindemith)]]</ref> [[Ned Rorem]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oxfordsong.org/song/five-poems-of-walt-whitman|title=Five Poems of Walt Whitman &#124; Song Texts, Lyrics &…|website=Oxford Song|access-date=November 19, 2024|archive-date=September 16, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916112920/https://oxfordsong.org/song/five-poems-of-walt-whitman|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Howard Skempton]]; [[Eva Ruth Spalding]]; [[Williametta Spencer]]; [[Charles Villiers Stanford]];<ref>[[Elegiac Ode]]</ref> [[Robert Strassburg]];<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Walt Whitman Quarterly Review|volume=21|number=3|year=2004|title=In Memoriam: Robert Strassburg, 1915–2003|first=Ed |last=Folsom |pages=189–191|doi=10.13008/2153-3695.1733|doi-access=free}}</ref>  [[Ananda Sukarlan]]; [[Ivana Marburger Themmen]];<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846|title=International encyclopedia of women composers|date=1987|isbn=0-9617485-2-4 | publisher=London Books & Music (USA)|edition=2nd|location=New York|oclc=16714846|access-date=July 28, 2021|archive-date=December 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225121554/https://www.worldcat.org/title/international-encyclopedia-of-women-composers/oclc/16714846|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Rossini Vrionides]];<ref>{{Cite book|last=Neilson|first=Kenneth P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pqip_ur9fg4C&q=rosina+vrionides|title=The World of Walt Whitman Music: A Bibliographical Study|date=1963|publisher=Kenneth P. Neilson|language=en}}</ref> [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]];<ref>[[A Sea Symphony]]</ref> [[Kurt Weill]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kwf.org/works/walt-whitman-songs-for-voice-and-piano/|title=Four Walt Whitman Songs|website=The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music|access-date=February 22, 2022|archive-date=March 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319091136/https://www.kwf.org/works/walt-whitman-songs-for-voice-and-piano/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Helen L. Weiss]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Frank Weise collection of Helen Weiss papers, circa 1940–1948, 1966|url=http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_rbml_PUSpMsColl1399&#ref3|access-date=June 9, 2021|website=dla.library.upenn.edu|archive-date=August 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817154405/http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_rbml_PUSpMsColl1399&#ref3|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Charles Wood (composer)|Charles Wood]]; and [[Roger Sessions]].<ref>[https://www.dramonline.org/albums/sessions-roger-when-lilacs-last-in-the-dooryard-bloom-d Sessions, Roger/When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd], ''DRAM''.</ref> ''[[Crossing (opera)|Crossing]]'', an opera composed by [[Matthew Aucoin]] and inspired by Whitman's Civil War diaries, premiered in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |author-link=Anthony Tommasini |last=Tommasini |first=Anthony |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/arts/music/review-matthew-aucoins-crossing-is-a-taut-inspired-opera.html |title=Review: Matthew Aucoin's ''Crossing'' Is a Taut, Inspired Opera |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 31, 2015}}</ref>

In 2014, German publisher Hörbuch Hamburg issued the bilingual double-CD audio book of the ''Kinder Adams/Children of Adam'' cycle, based on translations by Kai Grehn in the 2005 ''Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass'' (Galerie Vevais), accompanying a collection of nude photography by [[Paul Cava]]. The audio release included a complete reading by [[Iggy Pop]], as well as readings by [[Marianne Sägebrecht]]; [[Martin Wuttke]]; [[Birgit Minichmayr]]; [[Alexander Fehling]]; [[Lars Rudolph]]; [[Volker Bruch]]; [[Paula Beer]]; Josef Osterndorf; Ronald Lippok; [[Jule Böwe]]; and [[Robert Gwisdek]].<ref>{{cite web |author-last1=Pop |author-first1=Iggy |author-link1=Iggy Pop |author-link2=Paula Beer |author-link3=Jule Böwe |author-link4=Volker Bruch |author-link5=Alexander Fehling |author-link6=Robert Gwisdek |author-link7=Birgit Minichmayr |author-link8=:de:Josef Ostendorf |author-link9=Lars Rudolph |author-link10=Marianne Sägebrecht |author-link11=Martin Wuttke |date=August 25, 2019 |orig-date=2014 |editor-last=Grehn |editor-first=Kai |editor-link=:de:Kai Grehn |title=Iggy Pop spricht Walt Whitman – Kinder Adams – Children of Adam: Von Kai Grehn nach einem Text von Walt Whitman |trans-title= |url=https://www.hoerspielundfeature.de/iggy-pop-spricht-walt-whitman-kinder-adams-children-of-adam-100.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111015528/https://www.hoerspielundfeature.de/iggy-pop-spricht-walt-whitman-kinder-adams-children-of-adam-100.html |archive-date=January 11, 2023 |access-date=January 11, 2022 |publisher=[[Radio Bremen|RB]]/[[Deutschlandradio Kultur]]/[[Südwestrundfunk|SWR]] |language=de |author-first2=Paula |author-last2=Beer |author-first3=Jule |author-last3=Böwe |author-first4=Volker |author-last4=Bruch |author-first5=Alexander |author-last5=Fehling |author-first6=Robert |author-last6=Gwisdek |author-first7=Birgit |author-last7=Minichmayr |author-first8=Josef |author-last8=Ostendorf |author-first9=Lars |author-last9=Rudolph |author-first10=Marianne |author-last10=Sägebrecht |author-first11=Martin |author-last11=Wuttke}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20230111021209/https://download.deutschlandfunk.de/file/dradio/2019/08/24/kinder_adams_children_of_adam_drk_20190824_1830_d075d4fe.mp3] [52:29]</ref><ref>{{cite journal |journal=Walt Whitman Quarterly Review |volume=33 | number=3 |date=2016 |title=Whitman, Walt, Kinder Adams/Children of Adam; Iggy Pop, Alva Noto, and Tarwater, Leaves of Grass (review) |first=Stefan |last=Schöberlein |pages=311–312 |issn=0737-0679 |doi=10.13008/0737-0679.2210 |doi-access=free}}</ref> In 2014 composer [[John Zorn]] released ''[[On Leaves of Grass]]'', an album inspired by and dedicated to Whitman.<ref name="Tzadik">{{Cite web|title=Welcome to Tzadik|url=https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8320|access-date=January 9, 2022|website=www.tzadik.com|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174028/http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8320|url-status=live}}</ref>