This album brings together a remarkable collectionof secular choral works by the eminent Americancomposer Dan Locklair, celebrated for his gift of weavingwords with rich, expansive, harmonious and lyrical music.Drawing on texts by poets as diverse as Robert Frost,Walt Whitman, W.B. Yeats, Phillis Wheatley,Christine Teale Howes, John Gillespie Magee, Jr.and Rabindranath Tagore, these pieces explore themesof love and loss, nature and freedom, moments of intimatereflection and events of world-shaking resonance, alwayswith a voice that is deeply rooted in American culture.Spanning more than three decades, the works rangefrom intimate unaccompanied choral partsongs toexpansive cantatas, all commissioned by a range ofensembles, youth choirs and choral societies.