DESCRIPTION:
I must admit that when I first heard the title of this song, I had no idea what it was about. As it turns out, "Hermit" and "Veery" are both varieties of thrushes, so this song is a paeon to the their song. Hadley's wife, soprano Inez Barbour, liked to end her programs with this wildly romantic song. It was transcribed, for this performance, from Hadley's manuscript in the New York Public Library.

Soprano, Carey Pearson

Conductor, Eric D. Anderson

Parnassus Chamber Orchestra, July 29, 2010
at the Seminary Chapel, Andrews University