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