Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson's life has become a legend. She was a reclusive figure who wrote over 1,100 poems and had only seven published during her lifetime, wrote stunning pieces about travel yet traveled only once in her lifetime, had little literary training and yet created some of the most evocative and extraordinary poems ever written, with an astonishingly visionary scope and vivid use of language. While her songs defy easy setting as deftly as they defy easy interpretation, they have nonetheless intrigued and challenged composers, and over 100 have written settings. While the best-known are Aaron Copland's Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, Samuel Barber, Vincent Persichetti, Leo Smit, Andre Previn, Robert Baksa, Gloria Coates, John Woods Duke, Charles Griffin, Roland Leich, Jake Heggie, and William Jordan have also produced Dickinson settings. Her contributions to music have been so extensive that in 2002, the New Texas Music Works held a three-day Emily Dickinson Song Symposium, consisting of lectures, discussions, and performances. Dickinson had only one extensive absence from her hometown, when she attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, but left after the first year due to ill health, returning to her home to act as her parents' housekeeper. At first, she privately distributed her poems among her friends, but eventually began to send them to publishers, with very little success. However, she corresponded with editors and literary critics about her work and continued to write and store her poems, convinced that they had literary merit that would one day be recognized.
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Discography
8 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Americans in Rome
Classical - Released by Bridge Records on 14/10/2008
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Child, P.: Duo for Piano 4 Hands / Emily Dickinson Songs / Variations / Doubles
Classical - Released by Albany on 1/05/2009
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Laitman, L.: Vocal Music (Dreaming)
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Albany on 1/05/2003
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Avshalomov, J.: Songs for Alyce / Whimsies / Threnos / Wonders / Lullaby / Biblical Songs / From the Chinese / Two Old Birds / Who Is My Shepherd
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Albany on 1/07/1997
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Johnson, H.: Piano Sonata / Serenade / Short Sonata / 3 Songs / Clarinet Sonatina / Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano
Classical - Released by Albany on 1/11/1991
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Poems: Series One
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Parolita Libro on 1/11/2021
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I think the longest Hour of all
Emily Dickinson, Alberto Tre, Singing Poetry
Alternative & Indie - Released by UniAl on 10/06/2023
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Poems: Series Two
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Parolita Libro on 1/11/2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo