![]() ![]() What Housman made of the idea that John Ireland should actually start his setting of March (as ‘The Heart’s Desire’) at the third stanza hardly bears thinking about. ‘I wonder how he would like me to cut two bars out of his music’, was the wounded retort. This wasn’t to say he couldn’t breathe fire when liberties were taken with texts-he was reportedly cut to the quick when he observed that Vaughan Williams had omitted two verses from Is my team ploughing? in his setting for the On Wenlock Edge cycle. ‘I always give my consent to all composers in the hope of becoming immortal somehow’, he once quipped. ![]() Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936) made it a principle never to refuse permission for poems from A Shropshire Lad to be set to music. ![]()
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