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La Señal (II. De la Esperanza & III. De la Noche)

Season 2011-2012
Performance Date March 9, 2012
Performance Year 2012
Performance Time 8:00PM
Additional Performances 3/10
Location Ted Mann Concert Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Performance Title Música de México
Composer Guillermo Alvarez Navarro
Country Mexico
Year Composed 1997
Timing 8min 21sec
Performers

University of St. Thomas Chamber Singers

About The Piece

II. De la Esperanza
Entreteneos aquí con la esperanza.
El júbilo del día que vendrá
Os germina en los ojos como una luz reciente.
Pero ese día que vendrá no ha de venir: es éste.

III. De la Noche
En la amorosa noche me aflijo.
Le pido su secreto, mi secreto,
La interrogo en mi sangre largamente.
Ella no me responde
Y hace como mi madre, que me cierra los ojos sin oírme.
—Jaime Sabines

On hope
Amuse yourselves here with hope.
In the joy of the coming day
That grows in your eyes like new born light.
But that day is not to come: it is already here.

On night time
On this loving night I suffer.
I ask for her secret, my secret,
I slowly question her in my blood.
She won’t answer and does what my mother does,
She closes her eyes without hearing me.
—Translation by Katie Villaseñor

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