The White Election (1998)

This long song cycle—32 songs in four sections, running 72 minutes here—is a work that Gordon Getty says represents his best efforts. It is indeed a highly polished collection, creating an interior life of Emily Dickinson through her poetry. Getty’s music encompasses a variety of idioms, and is surprisingly tightly organized, in an intuitive rather than mechanical way. 

John Henken 
Los Angeles Times, 1998