Susan Narucki, soprano with Donald Berman, piano

The program features one of Mexico's most distinctive composers, Georgina Derbez who has written a remarkable group of songs to late poems of Emily Dickinson (Dickinson's "Envelope Poems") which have been translated into Spanish by the eminent Dickinson scholar Juan Carlos Calvillo. In Derbez' hands, the transcendent poetry is transformed into music that is by turns, ecstatic and intimate.