THE SEA OF SUNSET Emily Dickinson (set of 4 performance scores) [Hard Copy]

Soprano / Mezzo-Soprano and Ensemble | music for soprano and ensemble | music for mezzo-soprano and ensemble | Emily Dickinson poems | music for soprano, trombone, double bass and piano.

THE SEA OF SUNSET
for soprano / mezzo-soprano and ensemble

DUTATION: 8:00 minutes

INSTRUMENTATION: soprano / mezzo-soprano, tenor trombone, piano and double bass

YEAR COMPOSED: 1999

POEMS BY: Emily Dickinson
LANGUAGE: English

THE SEA OF SUNSET Emily Dickinson (set of 4 performance scores) [Hard Copy]

$45.00

Quantity

Item:	Four Performance Scores
Format:	Hard Copy
Edition:	2nd Edition
Copyright:	Lior Navok
Publisher:	Lior Navok Music
Pages:	18
Binding:	Plastic Spiral
Ink:	Black & White
Paper Size:	Folio (Europe) / Legal (USA)
Remarks:	All performers read from the score

Program Notes:

The poems of Emily Dickinson are a very unique work of art. Most of her poems are filled with detailed descriptions, transforming the poems into a medium of pictures carefully painted and calculated. Yet, it is quite amazing that these poems came from the hand of a woman who lived a secluded life in her hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts. A clue may be found in one of Dickinson’s sayings: “To shut our eyes is to travel.”

As I approached Dickinson’s poems (which number close to 2000), I found that most of them, even the short ones, are built around a vast space. Each poem requires its development time and cannot be rushed or squeezed into a regular song form. In The Sea of Sunset, I have let the words, the descriptions of nature, and the languid mood of the poem guide me into the realm of visual imagery. By adding the murmur of the sea and the whisper of the wind, I attempted to capture as faithfully as possible the picture I perceived through the poem.