Of the Sun Born (2008)
For unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir with soprano solo
Duration c.5 min
2008
First Performance: 3rd
July 2008, Riga, Latvia
Māris Sirmais conducting
Riga Youth Choir “Kāmer…”
Commissioned by and
written for Riga Youth choir “Kamer…”
Text:
extract from ‘Of the Sun Born’ by Blaga Dimitrova
(1922-2003)
With special gratitude to Yordan
Vassilev for permission to use the text and Sonia
Uvalieva-Rouve for her support.
От Слънце Родена
Щом вдигна глава, и внезапно заставам
със
звездната нощ очи в очи.
И поздрава тих на
всемира долавям
То сякаш светлинният трепет
звучи.
И, капка от тая безкрайна вселена,
Пречупвам аз нейния поглед и глас.
От слънцето
щом е земята родена,
от слънцето значи родена съм
аз.
Of the Sun Born (free translation by the
composer)
The moment I raise my head and
suddenly face
The starry night (eye in eye we
look at each other- the stars and I)
And as I
sense the faint greeting of the universe
It is as
though the beaming flicker sounds.
And I, a
drop in this Infinity,
Refract her glance and her
voice.
It is then that I know for certain:
As
Earth was born of the Sun
So too am I of the Sun
born.
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