Description
Title: Some Favored Nook
Artist: Tony Arnold
Label: New Focus
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 690277901355
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023-09-15
Number of Discs: 1
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.
Tracks:
1.1 Part I: To Tell Me What Is True? [04:49]
1.2 Part I: The Nearest Dream Recedes Unrealized [02:44]
1.3 Part I: Could You Tell Me How to Grow? [03:01]
1.4 Part I: They Shut Me Up in Prose [03:53]
1.5 Part I: My Barefoot Rank Is Better [02:10]
1.6 Part II: To See If We Were Growing [03:18]
1.7 Part II: War Feels to Me An Oblique Place [01:58]
1.8 Part II: There Suddenly Arose [02:45]
1.9 Part II: Emancipation [02:47]
1.10 Part II: All Sounds Ceased [02:53]
1.11 Part II: There Came a Wind Like a Bugle [01:54]
1.12 Part II: Attending to the Wounded [02:18]
1.13 Part II: That Shamed the Nation [02:01]
1.14 Part III: These Are My Introduction [05:51]
1.15 Part III: My Wars Are Laid Away in Books – No Prisoner Be [03:23
