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Part 4 of The Floating Boy (suite for big band and voices). Text: 'My Triumph', by John Greenleaf Whittier. Recorded live in concert at Magdalen Auditorium, Oxford, June 2019.

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('My Triumph', John Greenleaf Whittier)

The autumn-time has come;
On woods that dream of bloom,
And over purpling vines,
The low sun fainter shines.

The aster-flower is failing,
The hazel’s gold is paling;
Yet overhead more near
The eternal stars appear!

O living friends who love me!
O dear ones gone above me!
Careless of other fame,
I leave to you my name.

Hide it from idle praises,
Save it from evil phrases:
Why, when dear lips that spake it
Are dumb, should strangers wake it?

Let the thick curtain fall;
I better know than all
How little I have gained,
How vast the unattained.

Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong,—
Finish what I begin,
And all I fail of win.


What matter, I or they?
Mine or another’s day,
So the right word be said
And life the sweeter made?

Overhead more near
The eternal stars appear!

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from The Floating Boy, released February 4, 2021
Composer: Harry Baker
Performers: Oxford University Jazz Orchestra, The Oxford Gargoyles
Sound Engineer: Will Biggs
Album Artwork: Nick Budd

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Harry Baker London, UK

Harry Baker is an award-winning improvising pianist and composer active in jazz, classical and new-music settings.

His music has been featured on Jazz FM and BBC Radio 3 with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and his compositions recorded by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain on NMC Recordings.

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