{"id":3952,"date":"2025-08-17T15:12:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/?page_id=3952"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:07:23","slug":"when-i-close-my-eyes-i-dream-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/programme-notes\/when-i-close-my-eyes-i-dream-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES, I DREAM OF PEACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/natt-over-jorden-night-on-our-earth\/programme-note_cirkel_4a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/programme-note_cirkel_4A.png?fit=576%2C358&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"576,358\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"programme-note_cirkel_4A\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/programme-note_cirkel_4A.png?fit=576%2C358&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2254\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/programme-note_cirkel_4A.png?resize=400%2C249&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/programme-note_cirkel_4A.png?resize=400%2C249&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/programme-note_cirkel_4A.png?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b>When I close my eyes, I dream of peace<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">for mixed choir in many languages<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span>Duration 10 min<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 \u2013 4 min<br \/>\nPart 2 \u2013 6 min<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics in this piece is just one sentence long, said by an eleven<br \/>\nyear old Croatian boy during the Yugoslav Wars:<br \/>\nWhen I close my eyes, I dream of peace<br \/>\nNo name were to be found where I found this text.<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 Just in English is a tunelike mixture of English and onomato-<br \/>\npoetic syllables.<\/p>\n<p>Part 2 In twelve tongues is sung in different languages<br \/>\nwhere each language has its own melody and character. I have<br \/>\nin many cases used scales and rhythms from the corresponding<br \/>\nlanguage: In Arabic there is a beautiful Arabic scale, in Swahili the<br \/>\nlyrics are sung in a rhythmic, groovy way, in Russian the melody<br \/>\nsounds deep and emotional through a male choir, in Swedish the<br \/>\ndanceble tune is sung in 3\/4 metre, and so on.<br \/>\nThis piece is a peace project, so feel free to use it with variation<br \/>\nand in a suitable way for your choir. There is a short version available that consists of<br \/>\nthe second part only, but with an additional introduction.<\/p>\n<p>19 January 2016<br \/>\nKarin Rehnqvist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I close my eyes, I dream of peace for mixed choir in many languages Duration 10 min Part 1 \u2013 4 min <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1040,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3952","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P79arM-11K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3952\/revisions\/3983"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}