The two pieces of this set are arrangements of folk-songs from the Ukranian and Doukhobor traditions and were prepared on commission from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations for the Vancover Chamber Choir's 1989 tour of the former Soviet Union. For solo soprano and baritone, and mixed choir (SATB).

America's Like a Sister, Canada's Like a Mother was collected in 1950 by Mrs. T. Koshetz, Curator of the Museum at the Ukranian Cultural and Education center in Winnepeg. It reflects both the positive and the negative aspects of early Ukranian emigration to the New World. The middle section is intended as a lament and expression of nostalgia, in contrast to the boisterous opening and slightly more reflective ending.

In a Pine Forest comes from the Doukhobor community. The Doukhobors have just one musical instrument, the human voice. The act of choral singing is regarded as the musical expression of their basic philosophy of brotherhood and communal cooperation. "In a Pine Forest" derives from the secular side of their experience and appears to be an historical Russian lullaby of great age. the Tchetchentsi were an Asiatic people who roamed across Southern Russia between the eight and fourteenth centuries.

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