“And I keep telling myself that if I walk far enough or long enough someday I’ll come out the other side.”

–Brian Turner

Combining the musical forces of solo piano, chorus and orchestra with powerful texts written by Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran and award-winning poet Brian Turner, Jake Runestad’s Dreams of the Fallen explores a soldier’s experience of war and its lasting impact.

This new American masterpiece is beautiful, important and deeply memorable. True Concord’s recording of this work garnered our second GRAMMY nomination.

Turner’s poetry conjures the reality of war and the post-traumatic stress syndrome that haunts our fighting men and women long after returning home. Runestad’s music evokes what “the other side” could be: a community of people embracing—with compassion and understanding—those who have endured armed combat and a world with no conflict or war.

“I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.”

–Martin Luther King Jr.

Peter Boyer’s gorgeous and uplifting Dreaming a World, with texts from Langston Hughes, Native American prayers and Walt Whitman, plus references to Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Cesar Chavez and more, is a collection of American ideals focused on equality and the dream of all people living in harmony.

I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn…

A world I dream where black or white
Whatever race you be
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free

–Langston Hughes