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domingo, 26 de abril de 2015

María Guinand conducts the JCA Youth Choir (Bin-Nam-Ma) - VIDEO

María Guinand conducts the Japan Choral Association Youth Choir in this astonishing concert performed on 14 March 2015 in the Hamarikyu Asashi Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Binnamma is a dramatic and ritualistic work by the Catalan / Venezuelan composer Alberto Grau. This composition was dedicated to the victims of the terrible floods in Venezuela during 1999. The work begins with a Catalan nursery rhyme in which the sun is called to finish with rain. To the initial bars, which remember the tragedy, follow a ritual to the sun and ends with a dance of hope which is enhanced by choreographic movements.




Lyrics

Bin-nam-ma
Alberto Grau (1937-)
Sol solet vin a me veure
Que tinc fred

Translation:

Sun come to see me,
because I am cold.

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