The work was commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as a result of Snider receiving the 2014 Elaine Lebenbom Award for Female Composers.
The title of the piece comes from the closing line of the 1961 poem "For Fran," written by the Detroit-born former United States Poet Laureate Philip Levine.
[1] Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim of The New York Times described it as a "sophisticated piece," writing, "repetition transforms the emotional charge of musical motifs.
Ms. Snider skillfully draws a wide arc, with throbbing brass accents and slashing chords driving up tension.
It begins with an ethereal high note played by a single violin, and expands into a Mahlerian world of sound and textures.