Emily Dickinson Museum Poetry Discussion Group features musician, Eric Sawyer -- The Emily Dickinson Museum will host its next meeting of the Poetry Discussion Group on Friday. This week, the featured leader will be musician, Eric Sawyer.
The museum describes Professor Sawyer's musical background this way:
"The music of Eric Sawyer receives frequent performances on both coasts, including at New York’s Weill and Merkin concert halls and at Tanglewood, as well as in England, France, and Germany. His opera Our American Cousin recently received its stage premiere from Boston Modern Orchestra Project and was released on the BMOP/sound label. A second opera, The Garden of Martyrs, with libretto by Harley Erdman of the UMass faculty, is in workshop with a full premiere expected in 2013. A chamber music collection String Works and cantata The Humble Heart (performed by New England Voices) are available on CD from Albany Records.
Mr. Sawyer has received the Joseph Bearns Prize, awards from the Tanglewood Music Center and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a recent prize from the Ravinia Festival for his piano trio Lincoln’s Two Americas. He is on the music faculty at Amherst College. His teachers have included Leon Kirchner, Ross Bauer, George Edwards, and Thomas Benjamin."
The meeting will take place from noon to 2 p.m. ET in the Main Lounge of the First Congregational Church, 165 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Poetry Discussion Group meetings bear a $15 per session fee for non-members of the museum, or $12 for members.
The Emily Dickinson Museum is located at 280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts, the homestead of the poet.
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