Frederick Pollack wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour"
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> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: 3 poems
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>> I'd say all three belong in that Jolly Corner, Fred.
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>> Perhaps you are the elegiast of all we have 'enshrined' in these
>> years of.....
>>
>> Doug
>
> I try ... Isn't there a military (drum) tattoo called the Dirge for
> the Unmourned?
It's called the War Requiem. Benjamin Britten wrote the music around
the poems of Wilfred Owen. Music premiered in 1961 for poems composed
in 1917-18. Sadly we continue to know what it means.
kw
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