This is my letter to the World
Elizabeth Vercoe
About this work:
This is a dramatic cycle of six songs with additional spoken texts based on the poetry and letters of Emily Dickinson. The titles of the songs are: “This is my letter to the World,” “Bee!,” “Snow,” “Title Divine,” “A Spider sewed at Night,” and “I taste a liquor never brewed.”
Commissioned by flutist Patricia Harper for premiere on the Fifth Annual Women in Music concert series at Connecticut College, the piece was completed in October, 2001, just before the first performance. Additional support was provided by residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbertide, Italy, and by the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Year composed: 2001
Duration: 00:15:00
Ensemble type: Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble:Solo Voice with Keyboard
Instrumentation: ,1 Piano soloist(s), ,1 Soprano soloist(s)
Instrumentation notes: Suitable for soprano or mezzo.