Stanfordian Thoughts
A periodical series of reflections on recorded and unrecorded works by Charles Villiers Stanford
by Christopher Howell

25. “East to West” in Chicago and Cincinnati

The published vocal score of Stanford’s Ode “East to West”, op. 52, set to a specially written poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, bears the impressive legend “Dedicated to the President and People of the United States of America, January 1893”.

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