MY DREAMSONG (Min drömsång) (2024)

MY DREAMSONG (Min drömsång) (2024)
for children’s choir, C or Bb-instrument and piano. 3′

Text: Karin Rehnqvist. English translation by Anna Högberg, Sally Beamish, Peter Thompson and Glenn Mossop

Music: Karin and the children in Kvinten Choir from Nacka Music School

Duration 3 min

My Dreamsong was written for the Singing Children’s Project:New Music for Young Voices, a project where the children are co-creators. In this piece, the children from the Nacka Music School Choir, Kvinten, contributed to creating the opening notes. We taped a large musical staff on the floor, and everyone got to stand either between or on a line. In this way we created the melody line, that acts as both introduction and ending, and which is the inspiration for the rest of the piece.

Thanks to the Kvinten Choir and Sara Pucek!

Karin Rehnqvist in Februar 2024


To the choir leader about how to perform: The melody line that appears at the beginning and end of the piece is not entirely easy, so I have provided different suggestions on how to perform it. I hope this piece is sung often, so please adapt it to your own conditions! See the prescore.