Song of the Night (Nilo Alcala) premiered by "The Esoterics" (dir: Eric Banks)
Video Information
- Choir: The Esoterics
- Piece: Song of the Night
- Composer: Nilo Alcala
- Conductor: Eric Banks
- Voices: SATB
- Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary
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Winner, 2009 POLYPHONOS Young Composer Award
Music, Nilo Alcala
Text: Mevlana Jala ad-Din Rumi
English Translation: Anna and Adam Czerniawscy
Premiered:
Oct. 17, 2009
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
73... moreWinner, 2009 POLYPHONOS Young Composer Award
Music, Nilo Alcala
Text: Mevlana Jala ad-Din Rumi
English Translation: Anna and Adam Czerniawscy
Premiered:
Oct. 17, 2009
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
732 18th Avenue E, Seattle
Oct. 18, 2009
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
4139 42nd Avenue Southwest, West Seattle
Oh, do not sleep friend, through this night.
You a soul, while we are suffring through this night
Banish slumber from your eyes!
The great secret is revealed in this night.
You are Jove in the high heavens,
Round heavns starry dome you circle in this night!
Like an eagle fly above!
Now a hero is your soul in this night.
Such a quiet, others sleep
I and God alone together in this night!
What a roar! Joy arises,
Truth with gleaming wing is shining in this night!
Do not sleep friend,
If I slumbered until sunrise,
I should never, never see this night again!
Thorough fares on earth are silent.
There behold the starry roads of this night.
Leo, Orion,
Sagittarius and the Virgin blood‐red gleam through this night.
Saturn binds with fateful powers,
Venus floats in golden rain through this night.
Silence binds my tongue with fetters,
But I speak though tongueless in this night! less