Tarik O'Regan: Two Emily Dickinson Settings

Written for Soprano and Tenor soloists and SATB chours.These two short Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) settings, commissioned by Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare for their September 2007 concert series in Texas, were designed to frame an evening?s programme rather like a compositional ?inhalation? and ?exhalation?, a crescendo and decrescendo or a prelude and postlude. Densely textured, the music aims to hint at the myriad readings Dickinson?s surface-simple poetry yields in its many readers. Each setting uses a solo soprano and tenor, their voices referencing the polarities inherent in each poem (?sun? and ?shade?; ?love and hate?).

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