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Unread 07-21-2021, 02:45 PM
Chris O'Carroll Chris O'Carroll is offline
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Radiohead and Dylan Thomas, eh? Sounds like you're interested in after-the-fact combinations rather than performances in which the poets and musicians actually collaborated with each other.

The Beats often read to jazz accompaniment, and a number of composers set Edith Sitwell's poems to music, but I know of those performances without having heard many of them and without feeling any strong attachment. Richard Wilbur collaborated with Leonard Bernstein on the operetta Candide and with William Schuman on the cantata On Freedom's Ground. I've read what he wrote for the latter project, and it's mighty strong stuff, but I've never heard it performed.

Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is one piece of poetry performed with music that I have always found powerful and engaging. (I might mention some Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen songs as well, but I see no point in launching an argument about whether those songwriters are truly "poets" or whether arts and entertainment journalists called them that just to make themselves appear hip and sensitive.)

I have no musical ability, but now that you've put the thought in my mind, I may find myself musing about what tunes would be good fits with some of my favorite poems.
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