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Arts & Entertainment: In tune and under the spell of Emily; Composer Julian Philips talks to Christopher Morley about his latest work based on the verse of poet Emily Dickinson.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20000308
Author:Morley, Christopher

Composer Julian Philips seems unable to escape the spell of the poet Emily Dickinson and is looking forward to tonight's premiere of his Bromsgrove Concerts' commission Verses in Solitude, to be given in the "Mixing Music" series at Avoncroft Museum.

And when I caught up with him last week he had just emerged from a rehearsal of yet another group of Dickinson settings, Swift Partitions, for baritone and piano, a setting of her poems about the sea.

"Iain Burnside is making a Radio 3 programme about Dickinson settings, so he's doing this group of mine in that programme," ...

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