Emily Dickinson: Letter to the World

Ep 10

The reclusive poet explored all of life’s emotions, and there are hundreds of compelling settings of her poems, by composers from Ernst Bacon to André Previn to Ned Rorem.

Songs

Dear March, Come In!1950 · Twelve Poems of Emily DickinsonAaron CoplandEmily Dickinson A Letter1988 · Four Dickinson SongsLee HoibyEmily Dickinson Experiment to Me1951 · Nine Songs to Poems of Emily DickinsonOtto LueningEmily Dickinson Will there really be a morning?1999 · Three Dickinson SongsAndré PrevinEmily Dickinson When They Come Back1950 · Twelve Poems of Emily DickinsonAaron CoplandEmily Dickinson The Banks of the Yellow Sea1942 · Six SongsErnst BaconEmily Dickinson The Bustle in a House1990 · I Will Breathe a MountainWilliam BolcomEmily Dickinson Love’s Stricken “Why”1965 · Poems of Love and RainNed RoremEmily Dickinson Wild NightsErnst BaconEmily Dickinson Heart, We Will Forget Him1978 · Six Poems by Emily DickinsonJohn Woods DukeEmily Dickinson Heart, We Will Forget Him1950 · Twelve Poems of Emily DickinsonAaron CoplandEmily Dickinson Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart?1896 · Three SongsEtta ParkerEmily Dickinson Papa Above! (from op. 108)1944 · 10 Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 108Arthur FarwellEmily Dickinson Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause?1990 · Beyond CircumferenceLeo SmitEmily Dickinson Going to Heaven!1950 · Twelve Poems of Emily DickinsonAaron CoplandEmily Dickinson It’s Coming – the Postponeless CreatureErnst BaconEmily Dickinson Under the Light, yet under1978 · Thirteen Dickinson SongsGeorge PerleEmily Dickinson This Little Rose1947William RoyEmily Dickinson The Butterfly Upon2003 · One Bee and ReveryLori LaitmanEmily Dickinson I Dwell in Possibility2002 · Four Dickinson SongsRobert BeaserEmily Dickinson Let Down the BarsErnst BaconEmily Dickinson