{"id":1738,"date":"2018-10-21T17:29:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2021-09-21T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:17:59","slug":"natt-over-jorden-night-on-our-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin-rehnqvist.se\/eng\/natt-over-jorden-night-on-our-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGHT ON OUR EARTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NIGHT ON OUR EARTH<\/strong> (NATT \u00d6VER JORDEN)<\/p>\n<p>At night, as the world falls quiet, our hearing sharpens. Our song and speech become gentler, a little softer, attuned to the hush:<\/p>\n<p>Night on our earth now has fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Shimmering starlight sheen! \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I originally composed this piece for children\u2019s choir. It begins with a simple tune sung in canon. Then a lower part enters, a swaying ostinato. It repeats over and over.<\/p>\n<p>Fallen, night now has fallen \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Night, stars, darkness, depth: such beautiful, suggestive words about our reality and the voyage we are on together through the universe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Texts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nu \u00e4r det natt \u00f6ver jorden.<\/p>\n<p>Darrande stj\u00e4rna, gl\u00e4ns!<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e4rldarna vandra s\u00e5 fj\u00e4rran.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00f6rkret \u00e4r utan gr\u00e4ns.<\/p>\n<p>Marken och mullen och m\u00f6rkret,<\/p>\n<p>varf\u00f6r \u00e4lskar jag dem?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stj\u00e4rnorna vandra s\u00e5 fj\u00e4rran.<\/p>\n<p>Jorden \u00e4r m\u00e4nniskans hem<\/p>\n<p><em>Erik Blomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Night on our earth now has fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Shimmering starlight sheen!<\/p>\n<p>Our small worlds wander so distant.<\/p>\n<p>Darkness so endless seems.<\/p>\n<p>Darkness and depth and the dusk hour,<\/p>\n<p>why, why do I love them?<br \/>\nThough the stars wander so distant.<\/p>\n<p>Earth is still our human home.<\/p>\n<p><em>(English translation Linda Schenck)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIGHT ON OUR EARTH (NATT \u00d6VER JORDEN) At night, as the world falls quiet, our hearing sharpens. 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