TO MEET A FLOWER

TO MEET A FLOWER
3 Songs for Soprano and Piano
on Poems by Emily Dickinson

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8644

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Description
Emily Dickinson loved writing about nature and wrote many poems about flowers, three of which are celebrated in the song cycle “To Meet A Flower”. Flowers of various descriptions and personalities are included in this collection, one of two song cycles in which I’ve set her flower poems to music.

Text
1 – “Whose are the little beds,” I asked
2 – God made a little gentian
3 – The daisy follows soft the sun

Vocal Range
C 4  :  G 5

Duration
12′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
G 4  :  D 5

Year of Composition
2009

First Performance
November 10, 2016
London Festival of American Music
The Warehouse, Waterloo
London, England

First Performers
Nadine Benjamin, soprano
Susanna Stranders, piano

Listen
Nadine Benjamin, soprano
Nicole Panizza, piano