María Guinand conducts the JCA Youth Choir (Sabiá Coraçao de uma viola) - 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.

Sabiá Coraçao de uma viola by the well-known Brazilian composer and conductor Aylton Escobar combines different aspects of the Brazilian soul. The pieces display, on the one hand, interesting
poly-rhythmic textures using onomatopoeic sounds, imitating the percussion instruments used in the Brazilian popular music, and on the other, the lyricism of the "modinha". The "modinha" (traditional
ballad) was popular in the second half of the 18th century and during the 19th century.

Sabiá, coração de uma viola

Poem:Orlando de Brito
Music: Aylton Escobar (*1943)

Lyrics

Ah! coração, Ah! sabiá, minha viola.
Ah! aqui Xui, pixô não vi. Ah! colher de chá, Marajá Tudo é meu.
Cantando nas tardes plenas, somos irmãos, sabiá: o tempo levate
as penas, o tempo penas me dá.
Tudo que chorei e rí tudo é meu.
Coração tem dó de mim, ah! coração tem piedade, ah! coração tem
dó de mim, coração batendo astendo tão forte assim, coração vais
acordar Saudade,que dorme dentro de mim.
Amor que me faz penar, amor que me desconsola morre enforçado
ao luar nas cordas de uma viola.

Translation:

Ah, heart of my guitar. This is all mine. I did not see the bird, I could
not catch it. All is mine.
When we sing together in the beautiful afternoon,
we are like brothers, Sabiá. Time helps us to forget affliction, but
time also brings affliction to us.
I know that time takes away affliction, but time also brings us affliction.
I have wept and laughed so much for you, because you called me
love. My love, have pity on me. My heart is beating very strongly.
I will wake up with so much nostalgia, that sleeps within me.
Love that makes me suffer, love that provides no consolation dies
hanging on moonlight, on the strings of a guitar.

[a Sabiá is a yellow bird]