"Program note: "Broken Ground" was commissioned by the Des Moines Symphony orchestra, the Iowa Sesquicentennial Commission, and Grinnell College in honor of the Sesquicentennials in 1996 of the State of Iowa and Grinnell College." For choir and orchestra.
Contents:
1. The ice-glazed landscape / Ray Young Bear -- 2. Once when the ground was holy / Michael Carey -- 3. Rhizomes and Flora / Paula V. Smith and Edward Hirsch -- 4. Ocean of grass / Edward Hirsch -- 5. When the ground was broken / Dan Hunter and Mary Swander.
Summary:
The composition explores the relationships between the people and landscape of the prairie midwest as reflected through the arts of music and poetry.
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