COLUMBIA — The prolific composer Samuel Adler thinks setting poetry to music is a good idea, but not if the poet is e e cummings. A 20th-century poet who favored unconventional pacing and shunned most capital letters and punctuation, cummings never much cared for having his work made literally musical; he thought his poems musical enough on their own, Adler said.
Composer Samuel Adler shares knowledge through master’s classes
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | 3:29 p.m. CDT;
updated 3:48 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008
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