Video Information

• Choir: Salt Lake Vocal Artists
• Piece: Dos Palabras
• Composer:  Ivo Antognini
• Conductor:  Brady Allred
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Contemporary
• The Salt Lake Vocal Artists perform "Dos Palabras" by Ivo Antognini in Cattedrale di Sant'Andrea, city of Tortoli, Sardegna, Italy, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred, live in concert on September 12, 2011 as part of the Cagliari Festival Internazion...  moreThe Salt Lake Vocal Artists perform "Dos Palabras" by Ivo Antognini in Cattedrale di Sant'Andrea, city of Tortoli, Sardegna, Italy, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred, live in concert on September 12, 2011 as part of the Cagliari Festival Internazionale di Musica Vocale.
  
  Italy Tour: September 7-15, 2011
  
  Text (English translation):
  Poetry by Alfonsina Storni
  
  Two Words
  
  Tonight you murmured two simple words
  into my ear. Two words shopworn
  from use. Words so old, they are new.
  
  Two words so sweet the moon
  floating beyond the trees' branches
  pauses to fill my mouth. Words so
  melodious, when an ant inches up my neck,
  I make no move to brush it off.
  
  A pair of words so sweet that despite
  myself I say "How lovely life is."
  Calming, gentle, they are like
  scented oils poured over my body.
  
  So sweet and beautiful
  and my nervous fingers
  rise toward heaven in
  imitation of scissors.
  Yes, tonight my fingers
  would cut out the stars.  less