New mult-movement work for tenor and string quartet featuring texts by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Her amazing and under-appreciated nature diary (also titled Rural Hours) gives a delightful first-hand account of living in rural New York state in the mid 19th century. Her witty and insightful writings are here excerpted into a song-cycle for tenor.

Apple Hill String Quartet: https://applehill.org/about-us/apple-hill-string-quartet/

James Reese: http://jamesreesetenor.com