Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden and others
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“I have always considered and still deem that great poetry carries great music within itself. By limiting myself to the use of single lines, phrases, or titles from various poems, I am free to create music according to my own interpretation of a given image. Just an image, rather than the ideas behind Shakespeare's sonnet, for example. This is not the path of least resistance. This is rather a realistic perception of one's possibilities. It is beyond my ability to create music which will sound better than the music I sense in the poetry of Brodsky or Mandelstam. But I am capable, to a certain extent, of creating musical images which reveal the sense of separate words, phrases, lines.
I began writing a piece for baritone and symphony orchestra in the early Spring of 2001. It was completed six days prior to the tragedy that took place in the USA on September 11th. Although my music is usually sad, I did not dare to dedicate this piece to the memory of the innocent victims. However, I was aware that music written after the tragedy would have been different. Therefore, I decided to use the last two words of the text for the title: Don't Grieve. They are addressed to everyone who endured this tragedy with tears, and still believed in the future." (Giya Kancheli)