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Emergence: Emily Dickinson. Nadine Benjamin, soprano; Nicole Panizza, piano. (Stone Records 5060192780864; 78:50)
Aaron Copland: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson: "Nature, the Gentlest Mother," "There came a wind like a bugle," "Why do they shut me out of Heaven?," "The world feels dusty," "Heart, we will forget him," "Dear March, come in," "Sleep is supposed to be," "When they come back," "I felt a funeral in my brain," "I've heard an organ talk sometimes," "Going to Heaven!," "The Chariot." Luigi Zaninelli: Seven Epigrams of Emily Dickinson: "Had I pleasure you had not," "Who knows where our hearts go," "I trust this sweet May Morning," "We wouldn't mind the sun dear," "I am studying music now," "Till it has loved," "You might not know I remembered you." Juliana Hall: To Meet a Flower: "'Whose are those little beds,' I asked," "God made a little gentian," "The daisy follows soft the sun." "A Northeast Storm." In Reverence: "It is an honorable Thought," "Lightly stepped a yellow star," "Prayer is the little implement," "Papa above!" "The grace my little cottage is." Sylvia Glickman: "Black Cake: A Recipe by Emily Dickinson." Ella JarmanPinto: "This Little Rose."
In the pantheon of great poets, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) occupies an especially hallowed place. She was a spectacularly gifted writer and a daring innovator, but there is also something of a veil of mystery surrounding who she was and from what sort of life experience her work emerged. One reason she is such an enigmatic...