Eight Songs from the Poetry of Christina Rossetti
1. Will There Really Be a Morning?
2. Nature is What We See
3. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
4. I Can Wade Grief
5. It's All I Have to Bring Today
6. Fame is a Bee
Six Songs from the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
A Birthday Volume 1 (Soprano)
Echo Volume 2 (Mezzo Soprano)
Sheet music now available from: Modern Music for New Singers
21st Century American Art Songs, Edited by Dr. Robert Peavler,
North Star Music, LLC
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1. Kookoorookoo!
2. Clouds
3. Who Has Seen the Wind?
4. A Birthday (My Heart is Like a Singing Bird)
5. Windflowers
6. Echo
7. Dreamland
8. Song "When I am Dead My Dearest"
Recorded Live, featuring:
Heather Whitney, Soprano
Kari Cruver Medina, Piano
From “Sisters From Across the Sea”
A Musical Salon Series for Soprano and Piano
“Sisters From Across the Sea” is a musical portrait of poets Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. Comprised of two song cycles, each weaving together art song, imagery, poetry, and biography, this work celebrates the lives and calling of two remarkable women who share a parallel journey as sisters, daughters, friends, lovers, and writers, passionately devoted to the art of poetry.
Born in the winter of 1830, just five days apart, Dickinson lives in Amherst, New England, and Rossetti resides in London, England. Both defy the social conventions of the day and devote themselves to cultivating written voices that speak profoundly into the social, spiritual, and political landscape of their time in fresh and innovative ways. They are persistent and fearless in the pursuit of their art, and often unflinching in grappling with the paradoxes in their lives-- the most ironic being the reality that it was not an era that valued a women’s ability to independently think, live or believe.
There is unquenchable hope and transformational power in their verse. In this setting for Soprano and Piano, Dickinson and Rossetti’s poems continue to enlighten and transform in their timeless ability to address the joy, sorrow, humor and wonder of the human condition.
WIDER THAN THE SKY
MY HEART, A SINGING BIRD
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