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Dickinson Madrigals, Book 2 (1983) mp3
1. I think I was enchanted
2. A solemn thing
3. Cocoon
4. Wild Nights!
5. The Robin
Music: Roger Bourland
Poetry: Emily Dickinson
Published by ECS Publishing, Boston
Kenneth Seitz conducts the Cambridge Chorale (1983)
This set was commissioned by Kenneth Seitz and the Cambridge Chorale and stylistically picks up where Book 1 left off. Most of [...]
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Dickinson Madrigals, Book 1 (1980) mp3
1. My cocoon tightens
2. Luna
3. I showed her sights
4. Of their peculiar light
5. Answer July
Music: Roger Bourland
Poetry: Emily Dickinson
Published by ECS Publishing, Boston
Tim Mukherjee conducting the Red Sneakers Women’s Chorus
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In Boston in 1980, six very different twenty-something-aged composers got together and formed a composer [...]
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A brief collaboration that I will never forget was receiving a commission from Juilliard faculty member and organist for the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Raver. Leonard was asked to give an inaugural concert for a new organ in a church named St Stephen Episcopal Church. Leonard suggested the notion of quoting the hymn tune [...]
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The year that Michael Jackson released “We Are The World” I was approached by a producer for a local Persian TV station about writing a similar song that would premier on his show. What else would a newbie teacher at UCLA do but corral his students into helping him make it happen. I forget [...]
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