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Download an MP3 file of a performance of "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by the The Master Singers of Worcester and the Salisbury Singers, Malcolm Halliday, conductor.
Download an MP3 file of a performance of "I'm Nobody!" by the The Master Singers of Worcester and the Salisbury Singers, Malcolm Halliday, conductor.
The poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886 -- Amherst, Massachusetts) represents the idiosyncratic and satiric New England personality. These two short songs, “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” and “I’m Nobody!,” are treated in a light-hearted manner. Perhaps the listener might hear a bird in the first song, and a frog (doing a tango by the bog) in the second! Although humorous in nature, these lyrics and songs have thoughtful messages.
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