Anuradha Sivagurunathan <[log in to unmask]> wrote about
composers influenced by Whitman:

>and I think (so don't shoot me!!) that Vaughan Williams did something with
>Dirge in his Dona Nobis Pacem.

Vaughan Williams also set Whitman in the Sea Symophony, and did a choral
setting of Towards the unknown region.

One of my teachers said that Vaughan Williams' settings of Whitman sound
like great poetry set to schlockly music, until you read the poetry.

Regards,

Helen
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