VOX Femina Los Angeles performs One With the Wind by Larissa FastHorse and David O.
VOX Femina performs One With the Wind with lyrics by Larissa FastHorse and music by David O. at the June 2018 Concert, This Land Is Your Land, at Zipper Concert Hall, conducted by Dr. Iris S. Levine. Soloist, Ashley Sheagley.
"The text includes words in Lakota which define circles of community.
Misnala, as sung by the soloist, refers to herself. She is joined by a trio singing Tiwahe – representing her immediate family. Then her extended family, her friends, her colleagues appear, announcing themselves with the word Tioshpaye, “to be part of a circle.” Finally, her circle broadens to include her people, her nation: Oyate. Together, these circles of community bolster the individual and support each other, rallying with the phrase “Hoka Hey”, which Larissa FastHorse explains is used in this piece to “urge a person forward (like into battle) with a confidence that they have lived their lives so well that every day is as good a day to live or die as any other because the person is already walking on the good Red Road (the right path)."
- From the program notes by Dr. Holley Replogle-Wong