Eric Nathan - Some Favored Nook (CD)

Composer Eric Nathan's Some Favored Nook is so much more than a vocal setting of Emily Dickinson texts, as ambitious an undertaking as that can be. Weaving Dickinson's poetry into a libretto that is framed around the correspondence between her and noted abolitionist and author Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Nathan, along with librettist Mark Campbell and performer collaborators Tony Arnold, William Sharp, and Seth Knopp, has created an evening length dramatic work between two characters that speaks to themes of friendship, national division, morality, and conscience.