A set of four songs for lower voice with piano and optional string trio accompaniment. Songs may be sung separately or as a group. The deep sonority of lower voices works particularly well with strings.

American composer Juliana Hall has written more than 50 song cycles and works of vocal chamber music for prestigious commissions and artists such as Dawn Upshaw and David Malis. This song cycle is based on

Originally conceived as a set, this collection of songs is based on the writings of Willa Cather and Carl Sandburg. The Sandberg texts are all excerpted from the poem Prairie and fill in the