Recital.
Soprano Lisa Delan will sing Gordon Getty’s song cycle The White Election based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson; pianist Mikhail Pletnev will accompany her.
Tickets available through the Cal Performances Ticket Office at Zellerbach Hall; at (510) 642-9988 to charge by phone; online at www.calperformances.org; and at the door.
**Rush tickets: UCB students, $10; UCB faculty and staff (UCB ID required) and seniors age 65 or older, $15; all other community members, $20. Sales are limited to one ticket per person; all sales are cash only. Rush tickets are announced two hours prior to a performance and are available in person only at the Ticket Office beginning 1 hour before the performance; quantities may be limited. Information is available at 510-642-9988, press 2 for the rush hotline.
Ticket info: Half-price tickets are available for purchase by UC Berkeley students for all performances. Buy tickets by calling Cal Performances Box Office at 510-642-9988.
- Venue: First Congregational Church - Berkeley
- Date: Tue February 23, 2010 7:30pm
- City: Berkeley
- Price Range: $48
- Tickets: (510) 642-9988
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February 8, 2010
If search-engine hits are the Web election determining America’s most popular poet, then Emily Dickinson is currently in second or third place (along with Henry Longfellow), behind Walt Whitman. But unlike Whitman, her intensely personal poetry seeks a sympathetic reader, not a vast public sphere. And perhaps that is what drew the composer Gordon Getty to her. His song cycle on Dickinson's poetry, The White Election, will be performed, appropriately, on a Tuesday, Feb. 23.
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