Steve Schwartz wrote: >Why "effectively?" I don't see why another composer can't set Owen, even >the poems that Britten set. The only reason that occurs to me is that >Britten set them so effectively, so well that you can't imagine another >setting as good. Even I, a firm admirer of the WR, don't go *that* far. Hindemith and Sessions both wrote music to Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloomed". While I believe the Hindemith setting is better known, I prefer listening to the Sessions. Walter Meyer