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From: Paul Cotten
Subject: Re: Yeats poem setting
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At 12:13 AM 12/22/1999 -0500, you wrote:
Hi all,
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A poem I've loved for years has gotten itself burned on my brain recently =
and I
wondered if anyone's ever run across a song setting of it.
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It's a translation by Yeats of a 16th century French poem:
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Dr. Donald Bailey at Baylor University just recently published his setting=
of that peice. I
know because I am a master's student there and I am in the Baylor Chamber =
Singers
(who by the way are VERY good); we premiered it this past spring. It's not=
a bad
setting. I believe that he published it through Alliance music. I hope thi=
s helps!

Paul Cotten, baritone