American Transcendental

American Transcendental (2012) by Jon Pescevich is a cycle of four songs, based on poems by Poe, Emerson and Dickinson.

Brahma

Featuring the soprano Eleonore Marguerre and the pianist Andreas Korn

Brahma

If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.

Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Chariot

Featuring the soprano Eleonore Marguerre and the pianist Andreas Korn

The Chariot

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

Emily Dickinson

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