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Emily & Sue

by Dana Kaufman

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1.
The Homestead 01:41
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2.
Amherst dusk 01:20
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3.
Because I could not stop for Death 02:48
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4.
Make me a picture of the sun 01:41
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5.
Sue's letter, Part I 02:07
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6.
Sue's letter, Part II 02:10
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7.
Between the Homestead and the Evergreens 02:27
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8.
If you were here/Sunrise comes! 01:44 video
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9.
An altered look about the hills 01:16
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10.
I bear an Ocean/On such a night 02:26
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11.
The other side 06:52
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12.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers 03:05
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13.
Amherst dawn 04:42
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14.
How soft this Prison is 01:28
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15.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes 04:54
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about

This a cappella pop opera focuses on the little-known romantic relationship between Emily Dickinson and her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson. Letters between Emily and Sue, as well as Emily’s poetry, document an intimate relationship that was not socially acceptable or legally recognized in 19th-century Massachusetts. The plot of Emily & Sue extrapolates from Emily and Sue’s correspondences and explores the themes of isolation, queerness, and forbidden love.

The opera premiered on June 2 and 3, 2022, at Amherst College, which owns Dickinson's home/The Emily Dickinson Museum and commissioned the work. The live version of the opera is composed for a fixed media a cappella pop trio (Iris Vocal Trio) backtrack and one live medium-high or high voice, who portrays Dickinson (a role created by Jasmine Muhammad). A film version of the opera directed by Ron Bashford, created in collaboration with Four/Ten Media and filmed in Dickinson’s actual room, will be released the same day as the album.

credits

released November 11, 2022

Music by: Dana Kaufman
Libretto by: Aiden K. Feltkamp with text by Emily Dickinson and Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson

Performed by: Jasmine Muhammad & Iris Vocal Trio

Emily Dickinson: Jasmine Muhammad
Voice 1/Sue: Dara Gallagher
Voice 2: David Rowen
Voice 3: Andrew Kim

Recorded April 2022 in New York, NY
Producer: Dana Kaufman
Vocal Producer and Recording Engineer: Andrew Kim
Mastering: Eric Scholz Productions

Album Illustration & Design: Setty Hopkins

Commissioned by Amherst College
Made possible through the support of Amherst College and University of California, Riverside

Adhyâropa Records 2022
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