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“We Two Boys Clinging Together” available to stream

“We Two Boys Clinging Together” from “Whitman Songs” performed by Thomas Hampson with the New World Symphony lead by Michael Tilson Thomas is available to stream now!

“In my early 30s, I began reading Walt Whitman. The encounter helped me deal with the big question of ‘Who am I?’ One of the answers Whitman gave me was, “I am an American.”

My ‘Whitman Songs’ need ‘big singing’ by a fearless baritone who needs to feel comfortable with lieder and opera, of course, but also popular music. It requires a big singing actor to create the sense of exhortation, tenderness, and danger that is in the words. Thomas Hampson was a part of this project from the beginning.” —Michael Tilson Thomas

“GRACE: The Works of Michael Tilson Thomas” will be released by PENTATONE on October 4. All net proceeds will be donated to brain cancer research at the UCSF Health Brain Tumor Center.

All net proceeds will be donated to brain cancer research at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center.