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Author: Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Deaths and Entrances

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house (Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house ) - D. ApIvor [x] *
Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house [x] *
D. ApIvor: Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house

Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred (When the morning was waking) - M. Short [x] *
And death shall have no dominion (And death shall have no dominion ) - R. Manno, A. Bliss, D. Farquhar, J. Hearne, U. Kasemets, T. Roberts, R. Roderick-Jones, M. Williams *
And death shall have no dominion *
R. Manno, A. Bliss, D. Farquhar, J. Hearne, U. Kasemets, T. Roberts, R. Roderick-Jones, M. Williams: And death shall have no dominion
L. Stein: String Quartet no. 5

Birthday poem (Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes ) *
R. Roderick-Jones: Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes
R. Ford, B. Layton: Twenty-four years

Ceremony after a fire raid (Myselfves the grievers) - W. Peterson, M. Short [x] *
Do not go gentle into that good night (Do not go gentle into that good night ) - J. Hearne, E. Lutyens, J. McCabe, R. Orton, H. Reisberg, G. Whettam, W. Davies GER *
Do not go gentle into that good night GER *
W. Riegger: The dying of the light
J. Hearne, E. Lutyens, J. McCabe, R. Orton, H. Reisberg, G. Whettam, W. Davies: Do not go gentle into that good night
I. Stravinsky: In memoriam Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill (Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means ) - R. Manno, D. ApIvor, J. Corigliano, R. Hanson, P. Huse, B. Langley, W. Mayer *
I have longed to move away (I have longed to move away ) - R. Ford, D. Diamond, P. Dickinson *
I have longed to move away *
R. Ford, D. Diamond, P. Dickinson: I have longed to move away

I turn the corner of prayer and burn (I turn the corner of prayer and burn) - B. Rands *
I turn the corner of prayer and burn *
B. Rands: I turn the corner of prayer and burn

In memoriam Dylan Thomas (Do not go gentle into that good night ) - I. Stravinsky GER *
In my craft or sullen art (In my craft or sullen art) (from Deaths and Entrances) - P. Billam, W. Davies, P. Dickinson, E. Widmer *
In my craft or sullen art (from Deaths and Entrances) *
P. Billam, W. Davies, P. Dickinson, E. Widmer: In my craft or sullen art

Lie still, sleep becalmed (Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound ) - W. Davies *
Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound *
W. Davies: Lie still, sleep becalmed

Myselfves the grievers [x] *
W. Peterson, M. Short: Ceremony after a fire raid
N. Simons: Trialogue no. 2: Myselves grieve

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs *
R. Manno, D. ApIvor, J. Corigliano, R. Hanson, P. Huse, B. Langley, W. Mayer: Fern Hill

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means *
R. Manno, D. ApIvor, J. Corigliano, R. Hanson, P. Huse, B. Langley, W. Mayer: Fern Hill

On a wedding anniversary (The sky is torn across) - P. Dickinson *
On no work of words (On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody) - P. Dickinson *
On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody *
P. Dickinson: On no work of words

Poem (The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ) *
H. Kerstens: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower

Should lanterns shine (Should lanterns shine, the holy face ) - R. Ford *
Should lanterns shine, the holy face *
R. Roderick-Jones: Should lanters shine, the holy face
R. Ford: Should lanterns shine

Should lanters shine, the holy face (Should lanterns shine, the holy face ) - R. Roderick-Jones *
String Quartet no. 5 (And death shall have no dominion ) - L. Stein *
The dying of the light (Do not go gentle into that good night ) - W. Riegger GER *
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower (The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ) - H. Kerstens *
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower *
H. Kerstens: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower

The sky is torn across *
P. Dickinson: On a wedding anniversary

Trialogue no. 2: Myselves grieve (Myselfves the grievers) - N. Simons [x] *
Twenty-four years (Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes ) - R. Ford, B. Layton *
Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes (Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes ) - R. Roderick-Jones *
Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes *
R. Roderick-Jones: Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes
R. Ford, B. Layton: Twenty-four years

Two songs [song cycle] - L. Schidlowsky [x]
Vision and Prayer (Who are you who is born in the next room ) - M. Babbitt *
Was there a time (Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles) - R. Ford, P. Dickinson *
Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles *
R. Ford, P. Dickinson: Was there a time

When the morning was waking [x] *
M. Short: Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred

Who are you who is born in the next room *
M. Babbitt: Vision and Prayer

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