[New-Poetry] Bonnefoy set to music

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Shining images score sound tribute
Email Print Normal font Large font Peter Craven
July 28, 2007


Words meet music: French poet Yves Bonnefoy says that in creative terms, he and composer David Chisholm "are from the same country".
Photo: Lucy Bonnefoy


Melbourne composer David Chisholm has written a song cycle for the "spare grandeur" and symbolic landscapes of Yves Bonnefoy's famous poems about snow, writes Peter Craven.


Melbourne is about to hear the first performances of a new song cycle written by the Melbourne composer David 
Chisholm and sung by Miriam Gordon-Stewart. The work is called The Beginning and the End of Snow and it sets to music the words of a famous sequence of poems, Debut et fin de la neige, by the French poet Yves Bonnefoy, who is a poet of such high reputation that if he were to win the Nobel prize he would bring more honour to the award than it would bring to him.



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