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GeneralCatalogue no. 3045a
My river runs to thee
Music: Sheena Phillips, Words: Emily Dickinson
Voicing: SSA
Performance time approx: 1m 20s
Range S1: c'# – a'' / S2: c' – f''# / A: b♭ – e''
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This piece is part of the set "Sea Pieces".
It is not available for purchase as a single piece.
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The three vocal parts alternately ripple after each other in canon (like the River of the poem), come together in Sea-like solidity, or chatter playfully like Brooks. The word ‘Say‘ becomes an extended exclamation — perhaps a response to the sea’s sparkling presence, perhaps a hesitation before posing the poet’s request: ‘Take Me!’ Like Dickinson’s attention, the focus wanders impulsively.
My River runs to thee —
Blue Sea! Wilt welcome me?
My River waits reply —
Oh Sea — look graciously —
I'll fetch thee Brooks
From spotted nooks —
Say — Sea — Take Me!
Poems by Emily Dickinson used by arrangement with the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved.