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Poemas de Amor

Season 2024-2025
Performance Date May 17, 2025
Performance Year 2025
Performance Time 4:00 PM
Additional Performances May 4, 2025
Location Westwood Lutheran Church, St. Louis Park, MN
Performance Title Mending the Sky
Composer Stephen Paulus
Country United States
Year Composed 2006
Timing 15:00"
Performers

VocalEssence Chorus, Jessica Belt, soprano; Bob Adney and Jeff Bina, percu

Notes

I. Soñaba (I Was Dreaming)
II. De Tu Cama a la Mía (From Your Bed to Mine)
III. Pasas por mi Calle (You Pass Down my Street)
IV. Si lo Dicen, Digan (If They Say It, Let Them)
V. Mano a Mano (Hand in Hand)

Text Translation

Sung in Spanish

I. Soñaba (I Was Dreaming)
I dreamt
that my heart was happy,
but my faith, Mother,
dreams are just dreams.

II. De Tu Cama a la Mía (From Your Bed to Mine)
There’s a boat saling
from your bed to mine;
take a chance and come over,
my sunburnt lover.

III. Pasas por mi Calle (You Pass Down my Street)
You pass down my street
but won’t look my way;
you must have
a heart of steel.

IV. Si lo Dicen, Digan (If They Say It, Let Them)
If they say it, let them, dear soul,
if they say it, let them.
They say I love you
to death;
true enough, dear soul,
if they say it, let them.

V. Mano a Mano (Hand In Hand)
Hand in hand the two lovers,
hand in hand.
The young man and his girl,
they turn the water to light,
hand in hand.
—Anonymous 16th Century Spanish, translated by Alvaro
Cardona Hine

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