How Little is Within

from Orchestra Music by Kory Reeder

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Júlia Coelho - Soprano. Orchestra of Friends, conducted by Kory Reeder.

How Little is Within asks questions about listening, communication, and the moment. The text for the piece comes from Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems, collected in The Gorgeous Nothings. These intimate fragments of poetry, thought, and emotion demonstrate a concise and eloquent approach to language; not only that, but they draw questions to the form as well. Is language itself poetry? Who is it for, or who is listening? Do we sing for ourselves, inwardly, or do we ask other to come to us?
In the preface of The Gorgeous Nothings, Susan Howe says that “for Proust, a fragment is a morsel of time in its pure state; it hovers between a present that is immediate and a past that once had been present.” To me, this space between the past and the weight of the moment is where so much beauty might be found.

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Lyrics by Emily Dickinson
A 438
To light, and then return –
A 277
That fondled them when they were fire
will stir gleam and understand
A 394/394 a
Accept my timid happiness
no joy can be in vain | but adds to some bright
sweet
whose dwelling
A 496/497
Gaze
For which
I cease to
live -
A 252
In this short life
that only lasts an hour
merely
How much – how
little – is
within our
power

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from Orchestra Music, released February 20, 2020

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