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From: n8946...@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Dylan Bryan-Dolman)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 20:39:54 GMT
Local: Thurs, Apr 14 1994 4:39 pm
Subject: 4 weddings poem? help!
chiu...@u.washington.edu (Chiung-I Hwang) writes: It's by W.H. Auden. Auden intended it to be set to music, and it >m...@cscns.com (Michelle A. Vandepas) writes: >>Can anyone help me with the poem that was read at the funeral at 4 >>wedding and a funeral? I LOVEd it! and would like to know what the poem >>is and who wrote it. >>thanks! >The poem reading (from the movie) is recorded in the soundtrack. >Hwang has been used as lyrics at least three times. It was first set by Benjamin Britten, who often collaborated with Auden and who made this poem into a showpiece for the cabaret singer Hedli Anderson. Ned Rorem wrote two contrasting versions in his song cycle `Songs of Love and the Rain'. Britten called his setting `Funeral Blues', and Rorem called both his `Stop All the Clocks'. All three versions are available on cd. I'd like to know if the poem had any autobiographical significance for Auden. Dylan You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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