U. S. Composers and Poets

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Gerald F. Sweeney's new book is titled US Composers and Poets - The Intersection of American Classical Music and American Literature.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The relationship between American composers and American writers has always been close. Creating the music to accompany and enhance the prose and poetry pf our greatest writers has given us a treasury of musical masterpieces including Ives' Concord Sonata after Emerson Thoreau Hawthorne and the Alcotts- as well as Copland's Poems of Emily Dickinson Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with DuBose Heyward and Lukas Foss's The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County after Mark Twain.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This new soft cover book contains the musical offerings of 300 American composers who have embellished the literary creations of over one hundred and fifty American writers. This includes thirty-five musical versions of poems set by Walt Whitman and twenty-five by Emily Dickinson indicating the devotion shown to our favorite poets by American troubadours.</span></p>