Edith Sitwell and "The Beekeeper"

Edith Sitwell's poem "The Beekeeper" was set to music by Priaulx Rainier as "The Bee Oracles," as mentioned in her biography on the link to Wikipedia. I like that her work included her love for landscaping and an interest in bees, as well as her notorious reading of Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene as she toured the United States with her brothers and did poetry readings.

Although I didn't find a recording of Priaulx Rainier's "The Bee Oracles," her stringed trios were famous for their representation of nature in her sounds. The recording found on Youtube mentions that a BBC Invitation Concert in 1967 presented four works, including the first performance of the String Trio and the Suite for solo cello. In 1976 the BBC recorded and broadcast the complete chamber music, including her largest chamber work "The Bee Oracles."

Sitwell's interest in the distinction between poetry and music, applied to abstract performances is also something that I appreciate about her work as well, and that her flat was a meeting place for young writers which she befriended and helped with their work and publishing.