Gloria Coates (1934-2023)

Seven Songs with Poems by Emily Dickinson (1988)

for voice and chamber orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1988
    • Duration: 15 mn
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Emily Dickinson

Premiere information

  • Date: 14 December 1989
    Location:

    Allemagne, Munich


    Performers:

    Christina Ascher, mezzo-soprano ; Ensemble Neue Musik Munich ; Roger Epple, direction

Table of contents

  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?)