"Some Favored Nook" for soprano, baritone and piano

Some Favored Nook for Soprano, Baritone and Piano Composed by Eric NathanDramaturgy by Mark CampbellTexts by Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson,adapted by Mark Campbell and Eric Nathan DURATION  50 minutes ABOUT THE WORK My song cycle, “Some Favored Nook” (45 minutes), with texts adapted by librettist Mark Campbell, takes place in Civil War-era America and is inspired by the significant correspondence between an unlikely pair: Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. My work places Dickinson and Higginson's writings in the context of the Civil War and the patriarchal society of the time, and uses the texts as a lens to view the social, political and cultural issues of this early chapter in American history – abolition, civil rights, women's rights, the effects of war, as well as many of the themes that fill Dickinson's poetry, such as love and death – all issues that are as relevant today as they were in Dickinson’s time. Dickinson’s and Higginson’s correspondence sp