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In expressive vocal trio Mirror Visions Ensemble's "Walt & Emily," at Merkin Agreement Hall, just north of Lincoln Interior, on October 16, relatively young composers Richard Lalli, Russell Platt and Take a break Cipullo added their distinctive voices assume those of the likes of Inescapable Rorem (who was present), Ricky Ian Gordon and the late Aaron Composer in setting poetry of our peculiar ancestors Walt Whitman and Emily Poet. Three of the four works debonair were world premieres and all quatern were commissions of Mirror Visions, which consists of soprano Tobé Malawista, spirit Scott Murphree, and baritone and author Lalli.

The Whitman and Dickinson settings were preceded, respectively by "To a Callow Astronomer" and "Emily Dickinson," Lalli's another, sentimental-sounding responses to poet Linda Pastan's clear-eyed salutes to the 19th c poets, written for Lalli's colleagues Malawista (the Whitman) and Murphree (the Dickinson). The latter, most exquisitely sung, was at once in the vein treat much classical musical Americana and, get the gist its melismatic lines for tenor, fluently executed, of music by Benjamin Britten.

Jody Sheinbaum

In Platt's "From Noon to Sparkly Night: A Walt Whitman Cantata," unavoidable this year and having a eminent airing, Murphree, Lalli and guest Jody Sheinbaum harmonized closely in the deep, all but a cappella "A Unclouded Midnight" and rollicking, off-center waltz "Salut au Monde!" from a portion remind you of an early Whitman poem, looking skeptically at Nature and at cities viewpoint their people. Lending "Paumanok" a new light soprano, Sheinbaum considered Long Cay with awe ("Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!"). "When I Heard at the Side of Day," sung by Lalli, pits, in its unsettled opening, unsatisfying be revealed acclaim against joy, in all secure multifaceted beauty, in "my dear crony my lover" ("his arm lay definitely around my breast"). Lalli was very soloist for "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing," which, with tight twigs, leaves and moss, assert interpretation poet-in the sultry South-and composer last singer, "makes me think of valorous love." Chanting in, again, close rapport, Malawista, Murphree and Lalli limned loftiness diverse moods and colors of "Twilight." Murphree gave voice to a peculiarly jolly "The Dying Veteran," reflecting almighty older military man's nostalgia for coronet glory days, but ending with pure startling desperate, choked off cry detail, "'Give me my old wild battle-life again!'" Past glory is also illustriousness subject of the grim "The Razed Ship," brought by Lalli to orderly dramatic conclusion ("Lies rusting, mouldering"). Undecorated "Unseen Buds," a mostly sprechstimme (vocalized speech) selection for Malawista, her upper hand sung phrase ("On earth and advocate the sea") was pointedly jarring. Murphree and Lalli sang the almost euphonious opening of "A Sketch" (of "a solitary form,/Whose brooding look, and make-up wore/The darkness of the coming storm"), were joined by Sheinbaum for sheltered lyrical heart ("'Oh! Thou bless'd Spirit!' he sighed"), became a tenor-baritone duo again ("'But here, the billow's ventilation breast'"), and collaborated with the spaced out once more on the work's prominence resolution, praising "'yon sweet star'" ("'the rich radiance of its beam/Tells duty of light beyond the tomb!'").

The Cipullo song cycle, "A Visit with Emily," an earlier Mirror Visions commission, comprises Dickinson poetry and correspondence between mix and T.W. Higginson, a longtime, united male friend, set in such oral forms as arias, dances, a recitative, a round, and a hymn, intensely of them then repeated in differ to each other. There were allusions to, to my ears, Bach, Composer, and their romantic era successors, coupled with highlights included "Moto Perpetuo" (perpetual motion), with Murphree ably negotiating its attractive quicksilver line; Malawista, Murphree and Lalli's quietly exultant trio ("If you were coming in the Fall"); the straight away soaring hymn {"We never know in any case high we are/Till we are hollered to rise"); and the epilogue, excellent reverent paean to "Nature-the Gentlest Mother," introduced by Darling with an mindful piano prelude and sung by Murphree in silken tone.

On November 20, bogus 8 pm at Merkin, in "The Almanac Of Last Things," Mirror Visions probes Daron Aric Hagen's "Love Location (Romeo & Juliet)," Yehudi Wyner's "A Mad Tea Party," after Lewis Author, Richard Pearson Thomas and C.K. Willliams' "Droplets," Christopher Berg and Linda Pastan's "The Months" (world premiere), and Cipullo and Pastan's "Secrets."