"Although the preliminary form of the cantata was scored for chorus with piano accompaniment, the final version is now orchestrated"--Page 2.
Individual movements and the version for chorus with orchestra also available as separate editions.
Text by American and Candian poets.
Commissioned by the Toledo Choral Society for premiere in June 2022.
Duration: approximately 35 min.
Program notes and staging suggestions in English.
English words, also printed separately as text.
1. Lyric -- 2. By blue Ontario's shore : (a vision of democracy) -- 3. Erie waters : (the calm and the storm) -- 4. Lake Huron : (islands) -- 5. Songs from the shore : (Lake Michigan) ; On the breakwater ; Flying fish ; Fog ; From the shore -- 6. Lake Superior -- 7. As birds in flight