Seth Ebersole Presents —
A suite of original music composed and performed by Seth Ebersole and friends. Each composition is inspired by a different poem written by Emily Dickinson.
The Program:
1.Much Madness
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
2.To Any Happy Flower
Apparently with no surprise
To any happy Flower
The Frost beheads it at it’s play –
In accidental power –
The blonde Assassin passes on –
The Sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another Day
For an Approving God –
3.I’m Nobody!
Who Are You?
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell your name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!
4.The Robin
If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
5.On The Strangest Sea
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
In loving memory of Kenny Blekicki.
Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest Room
If in that Room a Friend await
Felicity or Doom--
What fortitude the Soul contains
That it can so endure
The accent of a coming Foot--
The opening of a Door--
6.The Very Nearest Room
7.Dear Emily,
A musical "postscript" - This composition serves to reflect Seth’s sincere gratitude to the poet herself for the beauty her words have illuminated in his and countless others' lives.
This album as well as all of Seth’s other recorded compositions can be found on Spotify and every other listening platform.
Seth is a jazz saxophonist and woodwind specialist working and living in the Washington DC area. In addition to performing his own music, Seth is a member of the famed big band, the Airmen of Note, with whom he tours nationally and internationally.