"The Life-Saving Cello and the Poet"

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Phyllis Hopper, a member of the musical collective Sacred & Secular, shares how she came to play the cello and the instrument's positive influence on her life. Other topics include her faith journey and her projects outside of Sacred & Secular.
Host/Sacred & Secular member Shawn Roney shares an excerpt from a collaborative work in progress between Ms. Hopper and himself, inspired by poet Emily Dickinson. He also discusses plans for the music, pending a decision by Harvard University Press regarding whether the work is under the copyright claim of HUP or in the public domain.

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Check out Phyllis Hopper's arrangement work at https://phroglis.wixsite.com/mysite.
For more information about Emily Dickinson, visit https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/. An excellent essay on Dickinson's relationship with faith is posted here: https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emily-dickinson/biography/special-topics/emily-dickinson-and-the-church/.
To listen to the Andre Previn-Barbara Bonney rendition of Aaron Copland's adaptation of "I felt a funeral in my brain," the poem mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLAJyMUvNrg.
Writer and scholar Rebecca Balcarcel offers a fascinating analysis of "I felt a funeral in my brain," including an alternate way of interpreting the work. Her analysis, posted on YouTube, is in two parts. For part I, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ISE11zqic. For part two, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6B6nCnpc0U.