Music by Karen Siegel ([ Ссылка ]), text by Carlos Pintado
Live performance by the Yale Glee Club, Director Jeffrey Douma, Conductor Ryan Rogers, November 11, 2022

Text:
Despertar y verse, no en la hoja, no en el árbol, siquiera en el campo que se extiende sin remedio. Despertar y verse tan solo en la semilla, en su conciencia, pujando, y saber que nada de eso existe, que pronto seremos consumidos por el paisaje, que lloverá sobre nosotros, que una mano más o menos hermosa, humana siempre, nos lanzará al polvo y que el polvo hará lo mismo que la mano y que nadie vendrá a hablarnos de sosiego, de labilidad, porque todo pasará tan rápido como un canto de estrellas en el cielo.
—Carlos Pintado

Translation:
To awaken and see oneself, not in the leaf, not in the tree, not even in the field that stretches relentlessly. To awaken and see oneself only in the seed, in its conscience, striving, and knowing that nothing of this exists, that soon we’ll be consumed by the landscape, that it will rain upon us, that a hand that’s more or less lovely, always human, will cast us into the dust and that the dust will do the same as the hand and that no one shall come to speak to us of tranquility, because everything will happen as fast as a song of the stars in the sky.
—Carlos Pintado, translated into English by Lawrence Schimel

Program Note:
Carlos Pintado’s poem, which he wrote for this collaboration, is full of surreal imagery and emotional ambiguity. It speaks to me of the beauty in self-understanding and “labilidad,” openness to change. I attempted to bring out musical colors to paint the beauty of Carlos’ words, using “overtone trills” (vowel alternations that result in flickering overtones) to create a shimmering texture. The harmonic language illustrates the continual change of the poem, shifting through a dizzying array of keys, ultimately completing a journey to the parallel major of the opening minor key. “Despertar” was commissioned by a consortium of four choirs: Consonare Choral Community, founding & artistic director Sarah Kaufold; Peninsula Women’s Chorus, artistic director Anne K. Hege; West Village Chorale, artistic director Colin Britt; and the Yale Glee Club, director Jeffrey Douma.

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