"Emily - No Prisoner Be"

The focus of the first of four afternoon concerts in the new Rudolf Buchbinder Hall is the poetry of Emily Dickinson – one of the most significant poets in world literature. Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Puts has created a song cycle from her work in close artistic collaboration with the celebrated mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and the award-winning ensemble Time for Three, which encapsulates 24 poems in music. Each of these poems, as Joyce DiDonato states, opens "its own cosmos," culminating with the titular brief poem: "No Prisoner be – / Where Liberty – / Himself – abide with Thee –."

Cast:
Ensemble Time for Three
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato
Direction / Lighting / Sound Direction Andrew Staples

Program:
Kevin Puts "Emily – No Prisoner Be" Song Cycle based on poems by Emily Dickinson (Commissioned work of the Bregenz Festival, Cal Performances – University of California, Berkeley, University of California, and Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures)