Confirmed with Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung, herausgegeben und übertragen von Eva Hesse und Paridam von dem Knesebeck, München: Nymphenburger Verlag, 1953, page 32.

Authorship

• by (James Mercer) Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967), "Drum", first published <<1953, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Samuel Hans Adler (b. 1928), "Drum" [SATB chorus a cappella], from Contrasts [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Paul Fetler (b. 1920), "Drum", published 1957 [SATB chorus a cappella] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Sergius Kagen (1909 - 1964), "Drum", published 1954 [medium voice, piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Günter Raphael (1903 - 1960), "Drum", published 1965 [baritone, piano, oboe, and percussion], from My Dark Hands = Mein dunklen Hände, no. 5, also set in German (Deutsch) [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Hermann Reutter (1900 - 1985), "Drum", published 1958 [baritone and piano], from Meine dunklen Hände, no. 2, also set in German (Deutsch) [ sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Paridam von dem Knesebeck , "Trommel", appears in Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung, first published 1953, copyright © and by Eva Hesse (b. 1925) , "Trommel", appears in Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung, first published 1953, copyright © ; composed by Günter Raphael, Hermann Reutter.
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