Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
2. Fischer, Martha, 1957-
3. Hoiby, Lee
4. Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
5. Duke, John, 1899-1984.
6. Farwell, Arthur, 1872-1952.
7. Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990.
8. Laitman, Lori, 1955-
9. Thomas, Richard Pearson, 1957-
10. Gendel, Scott, 1977-
11. Hoiby, Lee.

Description

1. 1 audio disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Series statement

1. American classics

Uniform title

1. American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label))

Subject

1. Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 > Musical settings
2. Songs (High voice) with piano

Contents

1. Poems of nature. Nature, the gentlest mother / Aaron Copland ; Bee! I'm expecting you! / John Duke ; The butterfly / Arthur Farwell ; When they come back / Copland ; Aristocracy / Farwell ; To make a prairie / Ernst Bacon ; Sleep is supposed to be / Copland -- Poems of identity. It's all I have to bring / Bacon ; I gained it so / Lori Laitman ; I'm nobody! Who are you? / Farwell ; I never saw a moor / Richard Pearson-Thomas ; Bring me the sunset (from Forgotten light) / Scott Gendel -- Poems of love. Wild nights! (from Forgotten light) / Gendel ; And this of all my hopes / Bacon ; Wild nights! / Farwell ; Heart, we will forget him / Copland -- Poems of death. The world feels dusty ; I felt a funeral in my brain ; The chariot -- Poems of immortality. Why do they shut me out of heaven? / Copland ; The sabbath / Farwell ; Going to Heaven! / Copland -- The shining place / Lee Hoiby.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Poems of Emily Dickinson set to music by various composers.
2. Compact disc.
3. Program notes by the soprano (11` folded sheet (6 p. : ill., ports.) inserted in container. Texts available online: http://www.naxos.com/libretti/559731.htm

Event (note)

1. Recorded May 30-31, 2007 (Hoiby) and Mar. 14-166, 2009 (remainder), Mills Concert Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Language (note)

1. Sung in English.