Eriks Esenvalds' composition for mixed voice choir with tenor solo, power chimes and water-tuned glasses. Its text combines a Latvian folk song with observations of the Northern Lights by two nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, Charles Francis Hall and Fridtjof Nansen. Commissioned by Choir of the West and conductor Richard Nance at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. In Latvian and English.