Editing High Flight (section)

=== Musical adaptations ===
[[Miklós Rózsa]] composed the earliest known setting of ''High Flight'', for [[tenor]] voice, in 1942. It was later published as one of his ''Five Songs'' in 1974. Canadian composer and Royal Canadian Air Force veteran Robert J. B. Fleming wrote a through-composed musical setting of the poem for the Divine Services Book of the Canadian Armed Forces published in 1950. The composer [[Bill Pursell]] wrote his own arrangement with narration for the [[United States Air Force]] Band, which was broadcast on their radio show in the late 1940s. Several songs and symphonic compositions have been based on Magee's text, including [[Bob Chilcott]]'s 2008 setting, premiered on 1 May 2008 by the [[King's Singers]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/radio/wk19/tue.shtml |title=Press Office – Network Radio Programme Information Week 19 Tuesday 6 May 2008 |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref>[[File:John Gillespie Magee Memorial.JPG|thumb|left|A plaque at St. Catharines/Niagara District Airport commemorates J G. Magee Jr.]]The poem has been set to music by several composers, including by [[John Denver]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjzcdvF3gDc | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526112423/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjzcdvF3gDc| archive-date=2015-05-26 | url-status=dead|title=John Denver sings High Flight |via=YouTube |date=1 August 2012 |access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref> and Lee Holdridge as performed on the Bob Hope television show and is included in his 1983 album [[It's About Time (John Denver album)|''It's About Time'']] and by [[Christopher Marshall (composer)|Christopher Marshall]], whose composition was commissioned for and premiered by The Orlando Chorale with saxophonist George Weremchuk ([[Orlando, Florida]]) in March 2009, under the direction of Gregory Ruffer. The first performance of a setting of words, known as "Even Such Is Time", from [[Gabriel Faure|Fauré]]’s [[Requiem (Fauré)|Requiem]], plus additional non-liturgical texts that included "High Flight", was performed by the Nantwich Choral Society, conducted by John Naylor, on Saturday 26 March 2011, in St Mary's Church, [[Nantwich]], Cheshire. The music was written by Andrew Mildinhall, the former organist at the church, who accompanied the performance with the Northern Concordia Orchestra.

Singer [[Al Jarreau]] paid brief homage to "High Flight" by using the closing lines in the bridge of his 1983 song "[[Mornin']]".

The American composer [[James Curnow]] was commissioned by the Graduates Association of Tenri High School Band in [[Nara, Japan]] to write a piece for [[concert band]] in honour of the 50th anniversary of its association.  The piece is entitled ''Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew'' with the subtitle "Based on a poem by John Gillespie Magee Jr."{{citation needed|date=February 2012}} In 2012, the Australian composer Daniel Walker was commissioned by [[North Sydney Boys High School]] to compose a piece for the school's centenary celebrations. This composition, 'Through Footless Halls of Air', which was written for choir and symphonic winds, features the poem in the lyrics.

British composer [[Jonathan Dove]] included the poem in his 2009 oratorio ''There Was a Child'', written as a memoriam to Robert Van Allen, who also died at the age of nineteen.  It has also been set by British composer Nicholas Scott Burt as a short motet and dedicated to the choir of Rugby Parish Church.

In 2011, [[Emmylou Harris]] wrote and recorded a song, "Darlin' Kate", dedicated to her late friend, folk singer-songwriter [[Kate McGarrigle]], which included the lines, " As you slip the surly bonds of earth and sail away..."

In 2014, Canadian composer [[Vince Gassi]] composed a piece for concert band entitled ''Chase The Shouting Wind''.

In 2015, the Hardcore DJ Nosferatu used the poem in his track "sanctity of space".