{"id":7014,"date":"2026-06-16T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7014"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:23:03","slug":"prayers-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/product\/prayers-of-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayers of Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_5-divioverlays_987509752  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Program Notes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_6-divioverlays_987509752  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Prayers of Steel<\/em>\u00a0was written in the fall of 1998 at the MacDowell Colony. Sandburg\u2019s strong, sinuous, athletic poetry inspired a vocal line which is agile, with an edge, and at the same time conveys a great deal of warmth, and, at the end, transcendence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_7-divioverlays_987509752  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Text<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_8-divioverlays_987509752  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>Lay me on an anvil, O God.<br \/>\nBeat me and hammer me into a crowbar.<br \/>\nLet me pry loose old walls.<br \/>\nLet me lift and loosen old foundations.<\/p>\n<p>Lay me on an anvil, O God.<br \/>\nBeat me and hammer me into a steel spike.<br \/>\nDrive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.<br \/>\nTake red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders.<br \/>\nLet me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue<br \/>\nnights into white stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Carl Sandburg, from <em>Harvest Poems<\/em> (1910-1960)<\/p>\n<p><small>\u201cPrayers of Steel\u201d from <em>Cornhuskers<\/em>, copyright \u00a9 1918 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston and renewed 1946 by Carl Sandburg, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace &amp; Company.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"duration\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">[dflip id=\"7137\"][\/dflip]<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Duration:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>ca. 3 minutes<\/p>\n<p id=\"vocal-range\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Vocal Range:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>B2 \u2013 F\u266f4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7140,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[28,122,42],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7014","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-baritone","product_cat-chester-biscardi","product_cat-individual-songs","first","instock","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=7014"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7014"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}