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Six Dickinson Settings     I.  II.  III.  IV.  V.  VI.
(total duration 15')
 
  IV. I Have a Bird in Spring

for SSAATB Voices        duration 3'

 

Commissioned by: Talisman,
Johnson Flucker, Director
World Premiere: 1987, St. Paul's Chapel, New York

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 The Los Angeles Chamber Singers,
Peter Rutenberg, Conductor (421k mp3)

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Text:
 
 
I have a Bird in spring,
Which for myself doth sing –
The spring decoys.
And as the summer nears –
And as the Rose appears,
Robin is gone.

Yet do I not repine
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown –
Learneth beyond the sea
Melody for me
And will return.

Fast in a safer hand
Held in a truer Land
Are mine –
And though they now depart,
Tell I my doubting heart
They're thine.

In a serener Bright,
In a more golden light
I see
Each little doubt and fear,
Each little discord here
Removed.

 Then will I not repine,
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown
Shall in a distant tree
Bright melody for me
Return.

                        Emily Dickinson
 


 

  
Play Audio Excerpt
 The Los Angeles Chamber Singers,
Peter Rutenberg, Conductor (421k mp3)

First Page of Score
  
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