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Emerson Society Papers Volume 27, number 1 spring 2016 EmErson sociEty PaPErs choral setting of Emerson’s “Boston Hymn” Premieres at symphony Hall WESLEY T. M OTT Worcester Polytechnic Institute Ralph Waldo Emerson enjoyed concerts by the Handel and Emerson composed the poem at the urging of his friend Haydn Society (H+H) in Boston and deeply admired both the music critic John Sullivan Dwight for the Grand namesake composers.1 H+H reciprocated on June 18, 2015, Jubilee Concert celebrating President Lincoln’s Emancipa- tion Proclamation, at the Boston Music Hall on New Year’s placing Emerson at the center of the finale of its ambitious 3 2014–2015 Bicentennial season at Symphony Hall. Day 1863. Ticket proceeds, the broadside declared, would Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972), award-winning com- benefit freed slaves. The twenty-nine listed supporters of the poser-in-residence for both the Houston and the Detroit event were prominent abolitionists and civic and cultural Symphony Orchestras, was commissioned by H+H and the luminaries including H. W. Longfellow, former mayor Josiah Library of Congress to arrange Emerson’s poem “Boston Quincy Jr., Edward E. Hale, Francis Parkman, James T. Hymn” for chorus and chamber ensemble.2 Her My Angel, Fields, Dial contributor and businessman S. G. Ward, his name is freedom premiered in a program titled “Handel R. W. Emerson, J. M. Forbes (railroad magnate and future + Haydn Sings” conducted by H+H artistic director Harry father-in-law to Emerson’s younger daughter Edith), Christophers. Works by Handel, Samuel Webbe, Gwyneth Charles E. Norton, O. W. Holmes, J. S. Dwight, and John G. Walker (b. 1947), Palestrina, James MacMillan (b. 1959), Whittier. and Bach opened the evening. After the intermission, David Emerson opened the event by reading what became Rockefeller Jr. read the full text of “Boston Hymn,” followed known as “Boston Hymn,” a morally elevated, piercing by Ms. Frank’s twelve-minute setting of the poem, then denunciation of all tyrants in which the voice of God The Deer’s Cry, by Arvo Pärt (b. 1935). Part the Third from declares, “I am tired of kings.” The Lord calls “watching Pil- Handel’s Messiah concluded the program. grims” to throw off oppression by finding divine strength within: “My angel,—his name is Freedom,— / Choose him to be your king.” The poem ends with God’s mighty promise: “My will fulfilled shall be, / For, in daylight or in dark, / My thunderbolt has eyes to see / His way home to the mark” (CW 9:381, 384). y t e i c As Emerson finished, the audience of three o S n d y thousand, including former slaves, stood “shouting a H d n a and singing.” The rest of the program featured l e d n a music: Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Holmes’s H y s e t r “Army Hymn,” Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” u o c , e n Rossini’s William Tell Overture (McAleer, pp. 573, e l e H n 572). At the podium leading the Grand Philhar- e j t e r G y monic Orchestra was Carl Zerrahn (1826–1909), b o t o h the longtime conductor of H+H (1854–1895, P 1897). Harry Christophers conducts the H+H chorus on June 18, 2015. (Continued on page 6) 2016 E mErson sociEty Donors Emerson Society members continue generously to join at various “patron” levels of membership. All donations above the $20 annual regular membership go to support special programs of the Society. Dues categories are Life ($500), Sustaining ($50), Contributing ($35), Regular ($20), and Student ($5). You may pay by PayPal or by check, payable to The Emerson Society (U.S. dollars only) and mailed to Bonnie Carr O’Neill, Department of English, Mississippi State University, Drawer E, Mississippi State, MS 39762. For further details, see emerson.tamu.edu/membership. Life Members Len Gougeon Todd H. Richardson Jean McClure Mudge Nancy LeMay Elizabeth Addison Bob Hamilton Robert Nelson Riddick C. Jack Orr Sean Ross Meehan Barry Andrews Don Henley George R. Rinhart Anita Patterson Jacqueline Kellon Moran José C. Ballón Mark Hicks Fan Shengyu David M. Robinson Ralph H. Orth Margaret Emerson Bancroft J. Parker Huber Nancy Craig Simmons Dieter Schulz Derek Pacheco Ronald A. Bosco Michael J. Keating Sustaining Members Joe Thomas Sandy Petrulionis Paul S. Christensen Jonathan Emerson Kohler Noelle Baker A.E.P. (Ed) Wall William Rossi Phyllis Cole Wesley T. Mott F. Jay Deacon Laura Dassow Walls Mikayo Sakuma Roger l. Cole Joel Myerson Susan Dunston Leslie P. Wilson Dale R. Schwie Duane H. Cox Nanae Nishio Claude D. Falls Contributing Members Margaret Moreland Stathos Scott C. Crowley Izumi Ogura Bernabe Genaro Gutierrez Lucille Bell Mark Sullivan Leslie E. Eckel Samuel K. Parish Robert D. Habich Prentiss Clark Yoshio Takanashi Ellen Emerson Wendell Refior Linck Johnson Jon D. Inners Joseph Urbas Mary H. Emerson Paul Rich Saundra Morris Daniel Koch Richard Lee Francis Robert Richardson, Jr. EmErson sociEty PaPErs EMERSON SOCIETY OFFICERS The newsletter of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society President: Todd H. Richardson (2015) Published at Purdue University University of Texas of the Permian Basin President-Elect: Daniel Malachuk (2017) www.emersonsociety.org Western Illinois University Editor: Derek Pacheco Secretary/Treasurer: Bonnie Carr O’Neill (2015) Book Review Editor: Leslie Eckel Mississippi State University Design and Production: Peggy Isaacson ADVISORY BOARD Margaret (“Bay”) Emerson Bancroft Emerson Society Papers is published twice a year. Subscriptions, Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association which include membership in the Society, are $20 a year. You may Prentiss Clark (2018) University of South Dakota subscribe using PayPal by visiting us at emerson.tamu.edu. Send checks for membership (calendar year) and back issues ($5 each) to Thomas Constantinesco (2018) Université Paris Diderot Bonnie Carr O’Neill, Department of English, Mississippi State Uni - versity, Drawer E, Mississippi State, MS 39762 . Neal Dolan (2017) University of Toronto ESP welcomes notes and short articles (up to about 8 double-spaced, Susan Dunston (2017) typed pages) on Emerson-related topics. Manuscripts are blind ref - New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ereed. On matters of style, consult previous issues. We also solicit David Greenham (2017) news about Emerson-related community, school, and other projects; University of the West of England information about editions, publications, and research in progress Martin Kevorkian (2016) on Emerson and his circle; queries and requests for information in University of Texas, Austin aid of research in these fields; and significant news of Emersonian Jan Stievermann (2016) scholars. Send manuscripts to the editor, Derek Pacheco, English Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg Department, Purdue University, 500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907 or [email protected] (email submissions are much PROGRAM CHAIR preferred). Roger Thompson (2017) Stony Brook University Review copies of books on Emerson should be sent to book review editor Leslie Eckel, English Department, Suffolk University, WEBMASTER 8 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108. Amy E. Earhart Texas A&M University ©2016 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Inc. ISSN 1050-4362 [Term expires at end of year in parentheses.] 2 Emerson Society Papers Global Emersons II: Affinities “Emerson and China,” Neal Dolan and Laura Jane Wey, University of Toronto, Scarborough “Transatlantic Authorization: Emerson and English Literature,” Tim Sommer, University of Heidelberg, winner of the Emerson Society Graduate Student Travel Award. ProsPEcts. “Emerson, Husserl, and the Transcendental Phenomenology of His - tory,” Bradley Nelson, Graduate Center, CUNY “Emerson’s Egypt,” Jennifer Sears, New York City College of Tech - nology, CUNY thoreau society 75th annual Gathering Emerson sightings/citings The theme of this year’s gathering in Concord July 7 –10 is “Finding The eagle-eyed Clarence Burley calls our attention to the book Ralph the Extraordinary in the Ordinary,” with an emphasis on Thoreau Waldo Emerson: Essential Spiritual Writings, edited by as “Proto-ecologist, Reformer, and Visionary.” The Thoreau Society is Jon M. Sweeney and published by Orbis Books of Maryknoll, New generously extending to RWES members the same discount on York, in their Modern Spiritual Masters Series. (Mr. Burley notes registration fees as Thoreau Society members. For information and that the online ad refers to Emerson, incorrectly, as “a full schedule, visit thoreausociety.org . Congregational minister.”) Emerson and the Extraordinary Self society for the advancement of “Emersonian Infinitudes: the Case of ‘Terminus’” Peter Balaam, american Philosophers Carleton College Session VII.E. The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society “Building a Representative Frenchman: Emerson’s Francophone Saturday, March 5, 2016, Portland, Ore. Turn in Poetry and Prose in the 1840s,” Michael S. Martin, University of Charleston “‘Not Enough of Labor’: Thinking as Doing in Emerson and James,” Austin Bailey, CUNY-Hunter College “Extraordinary Individualism: Emerson, Self-Reliance, and the Dic - tation of Democracy,” Austin Bailey, CUNY Graduate Center “‘The Man with No Senses’: Bronson Alcott’s Idealism and Its Impact on Emerson’s Philosophy,” Joseph Urbas, University of Bor - transcendentalist intersections: deaux, France Literature, Philosophy, religion “Mysticism and the Form of Emersonian Gospels,” Jason Hoppe, West Point This conference is sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, the Margaret Fuller Society, and the Anglistisches Seminar Emerson society Panels at aLa conference and Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg, July
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