This set was commissioned by Kenneth Seitz and the Cambridge Chorale and stylistically picks up where Book 1 left off. Most of the “madrigals” are in ABA or ABCA, with a repeat of the opening material. All my roots show in this one. As I was about to move to LA to take a new post at UCLA, it was my last appearance as a Composer in Red Sneaker, after which, they hoisted my sneakers to the rafters in Sanders Theater.
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Dickinson Madrigals, Book 2 (1983)
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)
RB @ 1918 Beacon St Boston
