general information

composition date
1988
duration
15 min
Libretto (details, author)

Emily Dickinson

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Solo voice and chamber orchestra)

information about the creation

date
December 14, 1989
Allemagne, Munich
interpreters
Christina Ascher, mezzo-soprano ; Ensemble Neue Musik Munich ; Roger Epple, direction

Part titles

  1. To the Civil War Dead (Armistice)
  2. The Sign in the Scarlet Prison (Mine by the Right)
  3. It Just Begins to Live (A Word is Dead)
  4. Chanting to Paradise (Bind Me, I Still Can Sing)
  5. There Breathed a Man (In Falling Timbers Buried)
  6. Thy Dust to Keep (Now I Lay Thee Down)
  7. The Place Called Morning (Will There Really Be a Morning?)

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