COPLAND Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

Описание: Aaron Copland
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
1. Nature, the gentlest mother [To David Diamond] | 00:00
2. There came a wind like a bugle [To Elliott Carter] | 04:51
3. Why do they shut me out of Heaven? [To Ingolf Dahl] | 06:24
4. The world feels dusty [To Alexei Haieff] | 08:32
5. Heart, we will forget him [To Marcelle de Manziarly] | 10:25
6. Dear March, come In! [To Juan Orrego-Salas] | 12:37
7. Sleep is supposed to be [To Irving Fine] | 15:10
8. When they come back [To Harold Shapero] | 18:02
9. I felt a funeral in my brain [To Camargo Guarnieri] | 20:42
10. I've heard an organ talk sometimes [To Alberto Ginastera] | 22:50
11. Going to Heaven! [To Lukas Foss] | 24:52
12. The Chariot [To Arthur Berger] | 28:04

Sophia Fiuza Hunt, mezzo-soprano
Grant Loehnig, piano

With a total duration of just under half an hour, Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson is Copland’s longest composition for solo voice. The first of the texts that Copland set (but the last in the final order) was “The Chariot,” Dickinson’s famous poem that opens with the lines “Because I could not stop for Death - / He kindly stopped for me.” The composer explained, “I fell in love with one song, ‘The Chariot,’ and continued to add songs one at a time until I had twelve.” In between composing, he devoured books by and about Dickinson and even made a pilgrimage to her home in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Twelve Poems was written at the height of Copland’s fame and stature, just years before his encounter with the political repression of McCarthyism, when he would be investigated by the FBI and blacklisted for his left-wing political views. Witty and lyrical, the songs show little trace of the storm and stress of the postwar period that would roil Copland’s later music.

Performed Monday December 4, 2017 in Field Concert Hall, Philadelphia, PA

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