Welcome to The Dickinson Ensemble 2025 Fall Fundraiser!
TDE is now a Not-For-Profit 501(c)3! We are scheduling four concerts this concert season (’25/’26) and four next season. These are workshop concerts to develop the music for the world premiere of A New Kind of Opera, The War Between the Houses, as part of Working In Concert’s Summer Opera Series.
We believe The War Between the Houses will be like nothing you’ve ever seen before, a story of jealousy and affection, set in 1883 Amherst where factions of Emily’s family are driven to an inevitable and disastrous conflict that teaches us about the painful toll of hatred and the healing power of love.
WE NEED YOUR HELP to complete this project!
We need to raise $5,000 in order to begin this new phase of our dream. This money will pay the performers for their hard work in creating this music. By donating you will become part of the family too.
Donor: $1 to $25 will get you listed in all our programs this year.
Supporter: $25 to $50 will get you a DVD/CD of Emily Sings and a donor listing in all our programs.
Sustainer: $50 to $75 will get you a free ticket to one of our concerts and a donor listing in all our programs.
Patron: $75 to $100 will get you a free ticket, a DVD/CD of Emily Sings, and a donor listing in all our programs.
Angel: $100 to $500 will get you tickets to all four concerts (each will be different), your choice of a DVD/CD or a limited-edition, hand-numbered Vinyl LP of Emily Sings, and a donor listing on all our programs.
And it’s tax deductible!
There are three ways to pay:
By Zelle directly to The Dickinson Ensemble. Simply use the email address don@thedickinsonensemble.org Be sure to send us your name and contact info so we can send you your tax deduction record.
To donate by credit card go to Square.com
On PayPal. Use 708 524-8605. Be sure to include your name and email address so we can send you your tax deduction.
Thank you!
NEW RELEASE!
The Emily Sings, two-disc, limited-edition, hand-numbered, and autographed Vinyl LP containing the complete eleven-movement chamber suite for soprano, flute, cello, and piano, composed by Don Skoog and performed by the Dickinson Ensemble.
$40 includes shipping.
You can pay by Zelle by using the phone number (708) 524-8605, (be sure to include your street address), by PayPal using the email address dskoog@mac.com (please add $1 more to cover their cut), or you can mail a check to Donald Skoog, 1101 Gunderson, Oak Park, IL. 60304. Orders from outside the country should contact us by email first, so we can figure the shipping to your part of the world.
Or by Credit Card on
You can also order the DVD/CD ($30) or digital download ($20) on BandCamp or
We also want to welcome singers Alexandra Olsavsky, Laura Pinto, Carolina Gomez, and Jessica Drake to the ensemble. For more on them go to our Artists page.
TDE performing at the Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting in Amherst, Mass on July 27, 2024.
Watch the video of Making Emily Sing, an introduction to the Dickinson Ensemble.
The Dickinson Ensemble is a chamber group devoted solely to composing and performing musical works inspired by Dickinson’s rich literary legacy. We also seek to collaborate with artists in other disciplines to create new expressions of her visions in sound, sight, imagination, and motion.
We are, we believe, the only musical group dedicated to conserving Dickinson’s musical legacy while focusing on creating new artistic collaborations built upon her work. Rather than being limited by this commitment, we are exploring her vast but largely unknown compositional heritage while making our own original contributions to the legacy of this most musical of poets.
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