The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109122   Message #2278768
Posted By: Jack Campin
03-Mar-08 - 07:20 PM
Thread Name: Dirge Cymbeline
Subject: RE: Dirge Cymbeline
Googling with "composer" in the search string reveals settings by Philip Rosseter (maybe the most likely to turn up in the folk revival?), Finzi, Zemlinsky, John Dankworth, Andrew Ford (who?), John Cook (ditto?), Roger Quilter (presumably dull as fuck), Thomas Arne (presumably much-sung once), Michael Hurd (juvenilia), Dominic Muldowney (he's okay), Vaughan Williams (another one that might have made it into the folk repertoire), Stephen Sondheim (presumably even more bumnumbingly tedious and lacking in any flicker of melodic imagination than Quilter) etc etc...