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ComposerAugusta Read Thomas
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PublisherG Schirmer Inc
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ArrangementSoprano/Melody Line/Percussion (SOP/M/PERC)
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FormatScore and Parts
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Genre20th Century
Description
For mezzo-soprano and percussion trio. If there's one thing Emily Dickinson knew for sure, it was what a good poem should do. "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry," she wrote. Dickinson was attempting to describe for her sister-in-law the power of poetry to envelop and even to devastate the reader (or listener). Her physical description was an effort to convey that successful poems are not weakling, tiny delightful breezes or passages or bookish exercises; they are chillingly annihilating. The three songs, all setting poems about the sun of Emily Dickinson, are colorful, varied, and last about 10 minutes. — Augusta Read Thomas