Hardin, Flights of Fancy, Op. 23

Burton Hardin
Flights of Fancy, Op. 23

for tenor/soprano, horn and piano

Burton Hardin, pilot, dedicated this work to Philip Farkas, pilot.

The five movements are settings of five different poems:

1. "The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson
2. "Silver Ships" by Mildred Plew Meign
3. "Prayer for the Pilot" by Cecil Roberts
4. "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by William Butler Yeats
5. "High Flight" by John Gillespie McGee, Jr.

Gr. 5