Waking of Spring

Artist (Composed By): 

This piece originally had a text by Charles H. Pace and Benjamin F. Smith, but Pace later removed the text to turn it into a piece for solo piano. The negative photographs reveal how Pace cropped out the lyrics of the original and made new printing plates of just the piano music. 

Publication Date: 
1958
Manuscript: 
Waking of Spring
Image: 
cover mockup for Waking of Spring
Image Attribution: 
Charles and Frankie Pace Collection, Center for American Music