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The White Election (2009)

A Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano by Gordon Getty

Part One: The Pensive Spring

I Sing to Use the Waiting (major setting)
There is a Morn by Men Unseen
I had a Guinea Golden
If She Had Been the Mistletoe
New Feet Within My Garden Go
She Bore It
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend

Part Two: So We Must Meet Apart

There Came a Day at Summer’s Full
The First Day’s Night Had Come
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up
When I Was Small, a Woman Died
I Cried at Pity, Not at Pain
The Night Was Wide
I Cannot Live With You

Part Three: Almost Peace

My First Well Day, Since Many Ill
It Ceased to Hurt Me
I Like to See it Lap the Miles
Split the Lark and You’ll Find the Music
The Crickets Sang
After a Hundred Years
The Clouds Their Backs Together Laid
I Shall Not Murmur

Part Four: My Feet Slip Nearer

The Grave My Little Cottage Is
I Did Not Reach Thee
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books
There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
The Going From a World We Know
Upon His Saddle Sprung a Bird
Beauty Crowds Me
I Sing to Use the Waiting (minor setting)

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Credits

A song cycle by Gordon Getty
Poems by Emily Dickinson

Lisa Delan, soprano
Fritz Steinegger, piano

PENTATONE / Release date: 2009

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The White Election (2009)

Gordon Getty discussing the poems of Emily Dickinson (filmed at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA). Performances by: Lisa Delan, soprano; Kristin Pankonin, piano; Cynthia Nixon, narrator

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