Demo Recordings for Toward Eternity, a Journey with Emily Dickinson

These are rough demo recordings for a collection of Emily Dickinson settings that I wrote over several years, most of them being written during the pandemic as a kind of coping mechanism.

Songs

1. There is No Frigate Like a Book

   My setting of Poem 1286 by Emily Dickinson

2. This is My Letter to the World

   My setting of Poem 519 by Emily Dickinson

3. There's a Certain Slant of Light

   My setting of Poem 320 by Emily Dickinson

4. Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup

   My setting of Poem 140 by Emily Dickinson

5. The Daisy Follows Soft the Sun

   My setting of Poem 161 by Emily Dickinson

6. Hope is the Thing with Feathers

   My setting of Poem 314 by Emily Dickinson

7. Will There Really be a Morning?

   My setting of Poem 148 by Emily Dickinson

8. On This Wondrous Sea

   My setting of Poem 3 by Emily Dickinson

9. I Dwell in Possibility

   My setting of Poem 466 by Emily Dickinson

10. Because I Could not Stop for Death

    My setting of Poem 479 by Emily Dickinson

11. Some Things that Fly There Be

    My setting of Poem 68 by Emily Dickinson

12. Under the Light, Yet Under

    My setting of Poem 1068 by Emily Dickinson

13. Our Journey Had Advanced

    My setting of Poem 453 by Emily Dickinson

14. I Died for Beauty

    My setting of Poem 448 by Emily Dickinson

15. Ample Make this Bed

    My setting of Poem 804 by Emily Dickinson