Last fall, composer Marko Bajzer spent a month canoeing through Voyageurs National Park. He was doing an artist residency there. And as he canoed about, he was taken by how the sky and the water overwhelmed his senses and got his artistic juices flowing.

“And that's not something that you can plan for in the way that you can plan for a hike, or to plan to do this, you just kind of have to be out there, and you kind of have to just keep your eyes peeled and your kind of mind open to whatever beauty you may encounter,” he said.

That experience inspired a work titled “Sky-Tinted Water,” a loose translation of the Dakota Mni Sóta. The work celebrates the 50th anniversary of Voyageurs and provides a musical rendering of scenes from the Boundary Waters.

“In a literal sense, you see the clouds

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