Will’s Original Music – Will’s Music

Seven Poems by Emily Dickinson, set to music by Willis Bridegam

Anita Anderson Cooper, soprano and Grant Moss, piano

Anita Cooper gave the first performance of this Dickinson song cycle at a program celebrating the opening of the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA. The performance took place at First Congregational Church, Amherst, MA on April 3, 2004.

You can view the score while you listen by clicking on the blue title of the piece.

I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed

Score: I Taste a Liquor

Wild Nights! Wild Nights!

Score: Wild Nights!

Hope is a Thing With feathers

Score: Hope is a Thing With Feathers

I Never Saw a Moor

Score: I Never Saw a Moor

The Heart Asks Pleasure First

Score: The Heart Asks Pleasure First

The Sky is Low

Score: The Sky is Low

There is No Frigate Like a Book

Score: There is No Frigate Like a Book

Erklärung (Declaration) – a poem by Heinrich Heine

Peter Shea, tenor and Monica Jakuc, piano

Peter Shea commissioned this setting of Erklärung, which is one of the poems in Heinrich Heine’s collection titled Die Nordsee, Erster Zyklus. He first performed it with Monica Jakuc at South Congregational Church, Amherst, MA, on December 13, 2005.

Score: Erklärung

Four Poems by Robert Frost, set to music by Willis Bridegam

Anita Anderson Cooper, soprano and Willis Bridegam, piano

This song cycle was first performed by Anita Cooper as part of a program titled “An Evening with Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost” at the Unitarian Meetinghouse, Amherst, MA on October 12, 2008. The words are from A Boy’s Will (1913).