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Dilys Elwyn-Edwards

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Nov 3, 2026

Manon LlwydGUEST
32:41
But also, I think if I have to choose a song, There is a song called Gwisgoedd Neaf, which is actually a translation of an English poem by Yeats called He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.
Manon LlwydGUEST
32:55
And the composer of this song, it's been composed by many composers, but this particular Welsh composer called Dilys Elwyn Edwards, who's also passed away, actually, her melody... is, although it's kind of deemed classical song, but her melody is deemed from a very folky feeling.
Manon LlwydGUEST
33:15
So what's interesting about it is that you take where you come from and the next generation will take it to where they want to take it.
Manon LlwydGUEST
33:24
And I think there's just, and it's a beautiful song and I love it as a piece of music and it's very short and it's very poignant and it's translated into the Welsh language by a person called Mered who was a really famous, very, very famous and the first to record folk music in Welsh and he worked really hard as a collector.

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