Season | 2015-2016 |
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Performance Date | May 23, 2016 |
Performance Year | 2016 |
Performance Time | 6:00PM |
Location | Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Saint Paul, MN |
Performance Title | ¡Cantaré! Community Concert 2016 |
Composer | Francisco Zúñiga Olmos |
Country | Mexico |
Year Composed | 2016 |
Timing | 3min 40sec |
Performers | Central High School Honors Choir; Francisco Zúńiga Olmos, conductor |
Text Translation | ¿Qué va a quedar de mi cuando me muera sino esta llave ilesa de agonía estas pocas palabras con que el día dejó cenizas de su sombra fiera? ¿Qué va a quedar de mi cuando me hiera esa daga final? acaso mía será la noche fúnebre y vacía que vuelva a ser de pronto primavera. No quedará el trabajo ni la pena de creer y de amar. El tiempo abierto, semejante a los mares y al desierto, ha de borrar de la confusa arena todo lo que me salva o encadena. Más si alguien vive yo estaré despierto. / What will be left of me when I die, Except this form, free of pain, These few words which the day Has turned their beastly shadows into ash? What will be left of me when that final dagger strikes? Perhaps mine will be the mournful, empty night That suddenly turns to springtime. There will be no more work to do, nor the burden Of having to believe, or to love. Open time, just like the desert and the seas, Must erase from the confusing sands All that saves me or enslaves me. As long as someone else lives, I will be awake. |
Categories | World Premiere VocalEssence Commission ¡Cantaré! Repertoire |
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