Composer Eric Nathan's Some Favored Nook is so much more than a vocal setting of Emily Dickinson texts; as ambitious an undertaking as that can be. Weaving Dickinson's poetry into a libretto that is framed around the correspondence between her and noted abolitionist and author Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Nathan; along with librettist Mark Campbell and performer collaborators Tony Arnold; William Sharp; and Seth Knopp; has created an evening length dramatic work between two characters that speaks to themes of friendship; national division; morality; and conscience.
2 Part I: The Nearest Dream Recedes Unrealized [02:44]
3 Part I: Could You Tell Me How to Grow? [03:01]
4 Part I: They Shut Me Up in Prose [03:53]
5 Part I: My Barefoot Rank Is Better [02:10]
6 Part II: To See If We Were Growing [03:18]
7 Part II: War Feels to Me An Oblique Place [01:58]
8 Part II: There Suddenly Arose [02:45]
9 Part II: Emancipation [02:47]
10 Part II: All Sounds Ceased [02:53]
11 Part II: There Came a Wind Like a Bugle [01:54]
12 Part II: Attending to the Wounded [02:18]
13 Part II: That Shamed the Nation [02:01]
14 Part III: These Are My Introduction [05:51]
15 Part III: My Wars Are Laid Away in Books - No Prisoner Be [03:23
Composer Eric Nathan's Some Favored Nook is so much more than a vocal setting of Emily Dickinson texts; as ambitious an undertaking as that can be. Weaving Dickinson's poetry into a libretto that is framed around the correspondence between her and noted abolitionist and author Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Nathan; along with librettist Mark Campbell and performer collaborators Tony Arnold; William Sharp; and Seth Knopp; has created an evening length dramatic work between two characters that speaks to themes of friendship; national division; morality; and conscience.
