Oh, passin' the love o' women

[sovay]

I dreamed that Benjamin Britten had set both the first and second series of the Barrack-Room Ballads (1892 and 1896) for voice and piano; the recordings had just become available on CD. You should have heard Peter Pears on "Follow Me 'Ome."

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If only you could take notes about things like composers' names as you dreamed, and they'd survive into the waking world.

There should be crossover dreaming. Someone reading your comment should be able to hum the tune of the Les Mis/G&S/Tolkien-Lewis track, and you'd say, "Yes, that's the one."

[sovay]

If only you could take notes about things like composers' names as you dreamed, and they'd survive into the waking world.

Very rarely, I have brought things out of dreams—not images, but words or tunes. My poem "The Drowned Men's Waltz" is one of the few examples.