Buffalo Dusk - Soprano (or Mezzo-Soprano or Tenor) Voice and Piano

This piece was written for Jun Mo Yang, a young tenor studying in the graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory of Bard College. He and his fellow students were working on a special project studying contemporary composers whose work engages with climate change, environmentalism, and the natural environment.

Juliana Hall wrote this song on a poem by one of her favorite poets, Carl Sandburg, who even by the early twentieth century was noting the degradation of the natural environment and its impact on life of all kinds trying to adjust to changed circumstances brought on in one way or another by man.  Buffalo Dusk speaks strongly of the extinction of species and the loss that represents.

For soprano, mezzo-soprano, or tenor and piano.