Comment on Why I Haven’t Been Posting Lately — by Touch2Touch

Your musical tastes are breathtakingly wide-ranging, Martin! I am enormously impressed —
No, not a requirement to like a piece — I guess it was simply an unexamined assumption. And also, I would actually like to learn to appreciate contemporary music. It IS the music of our times, and I’d rather not be more of a dinosaur than necessary. But until now it’s been all uphill. Thanks to everyone’s suggestions, I quite look forward to hearing the Sessions again. One trick of this particular work is that it is necessary to have the “libretto”, that is, the poem itself, in front of you. They are seamlessly woven.
The man who is presenting the Rutter (it will be the last work of the semester) will be (perhaps, he is English born and rather unflappable) quite excited to hear about another admirer. Now I look forward to it, knowing that you love the work. It gives a personal incentive —
P.S. I don’t know Tippett but do know the Yeats’ poem well, is it perhaps a setting for it????