Gloria Coates (1934-2023)

15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson (1965 -1998)

for mezzo-soprano (or baritone) and piano

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1965 - 1998
    • Duration: 28 mn
    • Libretto (details, author):

      Poèmes d’Emily Dickinson

Detailed formation
  • solo mezzo-soprano, piano

Premiere information

  • Date: 1998
    Location:

    création du cycle complet : Allemagne, Munich


Table of contents

I. (I’m) Nobody (1965/72) 1’20”
II. I’ve Seen a Dying Eye (1966/72) 1’40”
III. I Held a Jewel (In my Fingers) (1966/72) 2’20”
IV. Wild Nights (1971/72) 2’40”
V. Armistice (1972) 2’50”
VI. Mine by the Right (1980) 1’20”
VII. A Word is Dead (1979) 1’10”
VIII. Bind Me, I Still Can Sing (1980) 1’10”
IX. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking (1980) 1’30”
X. Vitality, Begun (1993) 1’40”
XI. After Great Pain (1984/98) 3’20”
XII. Bride of the Holy Ghost (1993) 1’30”
XIII. In Falling Timbers Buried (1984) 2’40”
XIV. Now I Lay Thee Down / On the Death of a Child (1980) 1’
XV. Will There Really be a “Morning”? (1982/84) 2’20”