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NatPhil Chamber Series: Poetry in Music

February 12, 2023 – The Mexican Cultural Institute


Chris Gekker, Trumpet

Sophia Kim Cook, Piano

Melissa Wimbish, Soprano

Kerry Wilkerson, Baritone


Program

Barbara Harbach: (b. 1946)

"Emily!" based on poems by Emily Dickinson, soprano, Eb trumpet, piano (10')

I. I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
II. If You Were Coming in the Fall
III. Wild Nights! Wild Nights!

Eric Ewazen: (b; 1954) (Poet Katherine Gekker)

To Cast a Shadow Again, for baritone, trumpet, & piano (20')

I. Stopped By the Stream
II. Luminescent Moonlight
III. Two Bees

IV. That Didn’t Take too Long
V. Interlude
VI. Everyone Says it Snowed Last Night
VII. Hands Underwater on my Body
VIII. Cordite Surrounded You – Lie Down and Cry

Lori Laitman: (b. 1955)

Two Dickinson Songs (soprano and piano) (4’)

I. Good Morning Midnight (2')
II. Wider Than the Sky (2')

Lori Laitman: (b. 1955)

Four Dickinson Songs (soprano and piano) (10’)

I. Will there really be a Morning? (2')
II. I’m Nobody (2')
III. She Died (3')

IV. If I... (3')

Carson Cooman: (b. 1982) (Poet Katherine Gekker)

Chasing the Moon Down, for Mezzo, trumpet & piano, Op. 848 (14')

I. Winter
II. Spring
III. Summer

IV. Fall


The NatPhil Chamber Series is presented in partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute.

National Philharmonic Board of Directors
National Philharmonic Artistic Leadership
National Philharmonic Administration
Image for NatPhil Chamber Series: Poetry in Music
NatPhil Chamber Series: Poetry in Music

February 12, 2023 – The Mexican Cultural Institute


Chris Gekker, Trumpet

Sophia Kim Cook, Piano

Melissa Wimbish, Soprano

Kerry Wilkerson, Baritone


Program

Barbara Harbach: (b. 1946)

"Emily!" based on poems by Emily Dickinson, soprano, Eb trumpet, piano (10')

I. I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
II. If You Were Coming in the Fall
III. Wild Nights! Wild Nights!

Eric Ewazen: (b; 1954) (Poet Katherine Gekker)

To Cast a Shadow Again, for baritone, trumpet, & piano (20')

I. Stopped By the Stream
II. Luminescent Moonlight
III. Two Bees

IV. That Didn’t Take too Long
V. Interlude
VI. Everyone Says it Snowed Last Night
VII. Hands Underwater on my Body
VIII. Cordite Surrounded You – Lie Down and Cry

Lori Laitman: (b. 1955)

Two Dickinson Songs (soprano and piano) (4’)

I. Good Morning Midnight (2')
II. Wider Than the Sky (2')

Lori Laitman: (b. 1955)

Four Dickinson Songs (soprano and piano) (10’)

I. Will there really be a Morning? (2')
II. I’m Nobody (2')
III. She Died (3')

IV. If I... (3')

Carson Cooman: (b. 1982) (Poet Katherine Gekker)

Chasing the Moon Down, for Mezzo, trumpet & piano, Op. 848 (14')

I. Winter
II. Spring
III. Summer

IV. Fall


The NatPhil Chamber Series is presented in partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute.

National Philharmonic Board of Directors
National Philharmonic Artistic Leadership
National Philharmonic Administration