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If you were to compose a song on an American poetic text, what poem would you select? (Please feel free to post brief texts.)
Posted by: Sigi E., Vienna (100660.651@compuserve.com) Institution: Private Date posted: Fri Dec 5 5:59:42 1997 Message: Every other century or so, God sends wonderful stars down to earth to make the world a brighter place. Thomas Hampson is the one of those stars in this century...and hopefully into the next. If I could make songs, I would set a tune to Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening" (..and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep...) or "Birches" (...one could do worse then being a swinger of birches....). And then hear Thomas Hampson sing it!! Thanks, Thomas Hampson, for filling the universe with your wonderful voice, and for making the world a brighter place...!
Posted by: Maureen Cullen (mcullen@rockfound.org) Institution: Rockefeller Foundation Date posted: Tue Jun 17 13:39:15 1997 Message: It's hard to choose one--many of the sonnets of E. St. Vincent Millay, including: Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring . . . When I too long have looked upon your face . . . Pity me not because the light of day . . . Grow not too high, grow not too far from home . . . Sorrowful dreams remembered after waking . . . When man is gone and only gods remain . . . and poems: God's World (O world, I cannot hold thee close enough), Witch-Wife (She is neither pink nor pale), Journey (Ah, could I lay me down in this long grass), Recuerdo (we were very tired, we were very merry). I had also been musing over music to W. Whitman's A Clear Midnight, but found from your new recording, To the Soul, that Charles Ives beat me to it! Replies: (list all replies)
Posted by: Daina Krumins (Perkonss@aol.com) Institution: ? Date posted: Sun Feb 9 13:56:39 1997 Message: I would like to see (hear) Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem, "The Dog" turned into a song. "The dog walks freely in the street, and the things he smells, smell something like himself ..... ants in doorways, . . . . ." etc.
Posted by: Daina Krumins (Perkonss@aol.com) Institution: ? Date posted: Sun Feb 9 13:53:18 1997 Message: I would like to see (hear) Lawrence Ferlinghetti'spoem, "The Dog" turned into a song. "The dog walks freely in the street, and the things he smells, smell something like himself ..... ants in doorways, . . . . ."
Posted by: William Adams (WMAdams@mail.utexas.edu) Institution: University of Texas at Austin Date posted: Fri Jan 10 22:55:16 1997 Message: Actually, I recently DID compose a song along those guidelines. I used Robert Frost's "A Prayer In Spring" - very pastoral piece. "O give us pleasure in the flowers today and give us not to turn so far away as the unfinished harvest. Keep us here..." I've long been a proponent of American Concert repertoire - and Mr. Hampson's efforts along those lines have done the form a HUGE service! He, and you, are to be commended for your efforts! BRAVI!
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