I wasn’t surprised to learn that Edna St. Vincent Millay was musical, but I didn’t expect to find that she actually composed something. Here, though, is a “Resurrection Hymn” written for a performance at Vasser in 1917. The harmonization is rather odd, which I suppose is in character. Calling the tune “St. Vincent” is facetious–there’s a traditional hymn tune called “St. Vincent,” written by the prolific Austrian composer Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, but her tune is different.

(Posted by Doug Skinner)