Alice Parker, Composer Who Heard Music in Poetry, Dies at 98
Briefly

Insightful settings of poems by Emily Dickinson and Archibald MacLeish gave her a footing in the world of the art song. And her use of texts by Martin Luther King Jr. for an oratorio written for the anniversary of his death... testified to her broad humanist sympathies.
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