Based on poems by Concord women poets. See concert review by the Boston Musical Intelligencer. From the review:

Concord resident and chorus member Melissa Apperson provided the set of three poems, “Concord Fragments.” The first two of these were adapted from texts by 19th-century Concord women, (Lidian Emerson, wife of Ralph Waldo; and the unknown Martha Prescott). Apperson herself wrote the third poem, “Walden,” which quotes a phrase from Thoreau’s text.

“In Some Dry Earth,” Emerson describes a root from the garden that symbolizes the potential of spring. Sparsely accompanied by clarinet, oboe and piano, Larsen started out with a small focused sound that grew to lushness. Martha Prescott’s text “This Day I am Eighteen” was set with a shimmering sense of joy, excitement, and sensuality. Melissa Apperson’s “Walden” drew on abstract Transcendentalist themes of the nature of the soul, but illustrating them with vivid images (Like the loon, dive deep, take wing) which Larsen set with chiseled and vivid motives (the word “Dawn” rung like a chime). The piano underscored the first sections with a breathless rhythmic ostinato. The overall effect was a celebration of our shared human experience. This commission is a significant addition to the repertoire for women’s chorus and is a wonderful legacy of the Chorus’s 50th anniversary.