Sentence examples for setting a poem from inspiring English sources

Simply setting a poem as powerful as this on an exam syllabus leaves it wide open to misuse.

Mr. Adler wrote "Canto V" for the University of Rochester to inaugurate its new Interfaith Chapel, setting a poem by Hyam Plutzik, the university's poet in residence, who died in 1962.

Judith Weir's choral cantata, setting a poem by Emily Dickinson and premiered in 1995, is one of her masterpieces, managing to say more in its 15 minutes than more grandiloquent choral works say in a couple of hours.

That's what Hanslick meant about being beaten up by two intelligent people, and it's precisely the idea that Thomas Adès sends up in his piece, Brahms, for baritone and orchestra, setting a poem by Alfred Brendel.

Foss is still composing; in a recent work, he set a poem by Christopher Foss to music.

"In the Month of Athyr" sets a poem by C. P. Cavafy, musing over a worn, ancient tombstone.

The music would seem to welcome us into the realm of nighttime, a mood that continues into the next song, "Nocturne," which sets a poem by Tennyson.

"Jane Grey" sets a poem by Heinrich Ammann about the young noblewoman who was elevated to queen of England for nine days in 1553 before being executed for treason.

The finale of the 1938 version set a poem by Confucius, "Epitaph for a Warrior," which ends with the words: "What remains of heroism?

In her "Song of a Lonely Autumn Night" Fang Man set a poem (in the original Chinese) by the Tang dynasty poet Qian Qi; Mahler used a German translation in his song cycle "Das Lied von der Erde".

Steven Stucky's lyrical "Aus der Jugendzeit" ("From Childhood"), sung well by Mr. Scarlata, sets a poem by Friedrich Rückert that has been used by more than 60 composers (but not Mahler).