The RTÉ Concert Orchestra Presents a Celebration of Emily Dickinson
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra is joined by David Brophy and guests for an hour-long programme bringing listeners through Emily Dickinson's work in a musical way.
Featuring readings by Stephen Rea and Emma Donoghue and music inspired by Dickinson performed by Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Naomi Louisa O'Connell and Susannah de Wrixon.
Including Billie Eilish’s ‘Bury a Friend’, ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death’ by Susan McKeown, Carla Bruni’s ‘I Went To Heaven’ and ‘I Felt My Life With Both My Hands’, ‘Will There Really Be a Morning?’ by Craig Johnson, Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘The Dangling Conversation’, and Ronald Perera’s Five Summer Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson. The RTÉ CO will also perform Copland’s Appalachian Spring.