Gloria Coates (1934-2023)
Seven Songs with Poems by Emily Dickinson (1988)
for voice and chamber orchestra
- General information
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Composition date:
1988
- Duration: 15 mn
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Libretto (details, author):
Emily Dickinson
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Composition date:
1988
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [Solo voice and chamber orchestra]
Premiere information
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Date:
14 December 1989
Location:Allemagne, Munich
Performers:Christina Ascher, mezzo-soprano ; Ensemble Neue Musik Munich ; Roger Epple, direction
Table of contents
- To the Civil War Dead (Armistice)
- The Sign in the Scarlet Prison (Mine by the Right)
- It Just Begins to Live (A Word is Dead)
- Chanting to Paradise (Bind Me, I Still Can Sing)
- There Breathed a Man (In Falling Timbers Buried)
- Thy Dust to Keep (Now I Lay Thee Down)
- The Place Called Morning (Will There Really Be a Morning?)
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