DAY IS HERE !
\nfor eight solo voices\/double choir and strings<\/p>\n
Traditional texts by Native Americans (Pawnee, Tohono O\u2019odham, Navajo) and from the Swedish Hymnal<\/p>\n
Duration ca 20 min<\/p>\n
Movements<\/em><\/p>\n 1. Day is here! I write these words at the end of a hot, dry summer in Sweden and much of northern Europe. It has not rained for three months. Wildfires have raged; temperatures have topped 30\u00baC for weeks on end. The heat is new and frightening. Is this the climate change that scientists have been warning us about for so long? What can we do? What must we do? Right now.<\/p>\n I had no presentiment of the drought and heat in April, when I was writing the last movement of this piece. It is a prayer for rain, but when I read the traditional Navajo lines, it was beauty that captured my imagination:<\/p>\n In beauty may I dwell.<\/em> I envisioned a light, playful piece for eight voices\u2014a double quartet\u2014and string ensemble. I wanted trills and shimmering music as voices and fiddles meet. I took my texts in a book of poetry by indigenous peoples. I have always been interested in ways of life, present and past. What are the things most important to our survival? Many of these texts speak clearly and directly about precisely that. Life. Survival.<\/p>\n In the third movement I brought in a Swedish hymn text. It, too, is amazingly light and bright: both in its content and in the sounds of the words themselves.<\/p>\n Finally we arrive at the prayer for beauty and rain. The music settles into a lower register and darker timbre. The vocalists begin in quasi-unison, almost together. Each part has its own rhythm before all sing in concert: In beauty may I walk, in beauty may it rain on us \u2013<\/p>\n May we all see the beauty around us, wherever we walk.<\/p>\n aug 2018, Karin Rehnqvist<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Day is Here!<\/em> was intended to premiere on August 12 in V\u00e4xj\u00f6 in an open-air performance with Musica Vitae and eight singers from Vokalharmonin. Conductor Fredrik Malmberg led our rehearsals.<\/p>\n But after a hot, dry summer, suddenly the skies opened. Thunder boomed and wind sent our music stands flying, posing a danger to musicians and instruments alike. We had to cancel the concert on short notice. The closing movement is a prayer for rain\u2014perhaps that prayer was a little too effective.<\/span><\/p>\n Day is Here!<\/em> for double choir and strings eventually premiered on November 4, 2022, performed by Det Norske Solistkoret and Ensemble Allegria with Grete Pedersen conducting.<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Day is here! (Pawnee*)<\/p>\n 2. The morning star is up (Tohono O\u2019odham*)<\/span><\/p>\n *Lyrics for movements 1 and 2 are from: Vi kommer att leva igen; eskim\u00e5- och indiandikter interpreted by G\u00f6sta Friberg. English translation by Linda Schenck.<\/p>\n 3. I himmelen<\/strong><\/p>\n I himmelen, i himmelen, I himmelen, i himmelen, (Laurentius Laurinus 1622, from the Swedish Hymnal)<\/p>\n English translation<\/em>:<\/p>\n In heaven\u2019s hall, in heaven\u2019s hall (English translation by Linda Schenck)<\/p>\n 4. In beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n In beauty may I dwell. (Navajo Prayer, Night Way, from Navajo Wildlands, ed. Philip Hyde & Stephen C. 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\n2. The morning star is up
\n<\/span>3. I himmelen (In heaven\u2019s hall)
\n4. In beauty may I walk<\/p>\n
\nIn beauty may I walk \u2013<\/em>
\nIn beauty may it rain on us \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n
\n
\n<\/strong>
\nDay is here!
\n<\/span>Arise, lift thine eyes!
\n<\/span>Look up and see the day.
\nAll creatures wake and see the light.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nThe morning star is up.
\n<\/span>I cross the mountains
\ninto the light of the sea.<\/p>\n
\nd\u00e4r Herren Gud sj\u00e4lv bor,
\nhur h\u00e4rlig bliver s\u00e4llheten,
\nhur outs\u00e4gligt stor!
\nD\u00e4r ansikte mot ansikte
\njag evigt, evigt Gud f\u00e5r se,
\n<\/span>se Herren Sebaot<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>vad s\u00e4lla utan tal!
\nAv \u00e4nglarna och helgonen,
\nvad glans i \u00e4rans sal!
\nMin sj\u00e4l skall bliva dessa lik,
\nav evighetens skatter rik,
\nhos Herren Sebaot<\/p>\n
\nwhere God the Lord resides
\n<\/span>What utter joy what pleasure there
\nwhere happiness abides
\nAnd here are we, now face to face
\nwhere God eternal fills the space,
\nThe Lord, the Lord of Hosts.
\nIn heaven\u2019s hall, in heaven\u2019s hall
\nthe blessed gather there.
\nAnd there the saints and angels wear
\na sheen and haloed hair!
\nMy soul, your soul shall ever be
\nEnriched for all eternity
\nBy God, the Lord of Hosts<\/p>\n
\nIn beauty may I walk.
\nIn beauty may all my brothers dwell.
\nIn beauty may my all my sisters dwell.
\nIn beauty may it rain on our children.
\nIn beauty may it rain on us.
\nIn the trail of pollen may it rain.
\nIn beauty may it rain on the young.
\nIn beauty may it rain on our elders.
\nIn beauty before us may it rain.
\nIn beauty behind us may it rain.
\nIn beauty above us may it rain.
\nIn beauty all around us may it rain.
\nIn beauty may I walk.<\/p>\n