To what purpose, April...?

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"To what purpose, April...?" is a song cycle by Jonathan Bailey Holland. The work was commissioned and premiered by Sarah Long, The Walt Whitman Project, and The Riverside Church in 2007. The work is scored for soprano and piano. The opening line is excerpted from Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem entitled "Spring."

Date: 2007Composer: Jonathan Bailey HollandText: Edna St. Vincent Millay

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