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Johanna Nordhorn - mezzo soprano (pictured in photo)
Maryse Carlin - piano
Kyle Honeycutt - drums
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released May 4, 2018
Text for THE SUN is based upon three separate poems by
Emily Dickinson - punctuation and capitals by Emily Dickinson:
When I have seen the Sun emerge
From His amazing House -
And leave a Day at every Door
A Deed, in every place -
Without the incident of Fame
Or accident of Noise -
The Earth has seemed to me a Drum,
Pursued of little Boys .......(#888)
She sweeps with many-colored Brooms -
And leaves the Shreds behind -
Oh Housewife in the Evening West -
Come back, and dust the Pond!
You dropped a Pulple Ravelling in -
You dropped an Amber thread -
And now you've littered all the East
With Duds of Emerald!
And still, she plies her spotted Brooms,
And still the Aprons fly,
Till Brooms fade softy into stars -
And then I come away - .......(#219)
The Sun went down - no Man looked on -
The Earth and I, alone,
Were present at the Majesty -
He triumphed, and went on -
The Sun went up - no Man looked on -
The Earth and I and One
A nameless Bird - a Stranger
Were Witness for the Crown - ......(#1079)
Poetry of Emily Dickinson used here by permission of
Harvard University Press as publisher:
Fred Tompkins completed his early studies of music in St. Louis but lived in NYC from '72-'90 where he wrote and recorded
compositions for a wide variety of small ensembles to include Elvin Jones, David Liebman, Richard Davis and many other great musicians.
Interested in forging his own style of jazz/classical synthesis, he also wrote vocal works to poetry by Keats, Dickinson & Michael Castro....more
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