English poet Anna Wickham wrote "To be sung" under the title of this, so I wrote music for it and did so. My appreciation for the poem about the transience of beautiful things deepened as I worked with it for performance.
The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done almost 850 of these pieces, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org
