Paul Bowles

Heavenly Grass and Cabin

Paul Bowles (1910-1999) was an American composer and author who is perhaps best known for his best-selling novel, The Sheltering Sky. He studied composition with Aaron Copland in Paris during the 1930s, and during the 1940s Bowles and his wife, playwright Jane Auer, became prominent members of the New York literary community before moving permanently to Tangier in 1947. The songs Heavenly Grass and Cabin (1979), on poems by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), are included in Bowles’ Blue Mountain Ballads and have an appropriate folklike quality.

--Summer Serenade, July 25, 2007 (Lindsey Tuller & Clinton Weinberg)