SKU: BJ.1231

8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Contents:
My song
Farewell
Two compositions to lyrics by Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore: My Song and Farewell. Enrico Miaroma, Italian composer and choral conductor, writes about the pieces:

Farewell was composed in 2011 for a youth choir of 45 young adults, working and having fun together in Arco (Trentino), for one marvellous week together with Gary Graden and myself. My aim was to compose a piece that young choristers would appreciate after intense and joyful days together. Through my music I wanted to share the range of emotions and the hardship of parting when they were to go home to their native countries again. The choice of such a beautiful and evocative text helped me a great deal to achieve this.
Farewell is recorded by S:t Jacobs Chamber Choir and Gary Graden on the cd To the Field of Stars (Footprint Records FRCD 083).

My Song is like a little brother to Farewell. From the very beginning, I had a strong feeling that the assonance between the words of the title, 'my song', and 'my son', was intended by the poet. Throughout the composing process, this kept coming back to me, bringing my little son, Giovanni, who is four years old, to mind. I would like My song to be a gift from a father to his son, for his future life: 'This song of mine, my child, will wind its music around you'.

John Quinn, MusicWeb International on Enrico Miaroma and Farewell:
The choral writing is rich and he harnesses the emotions in the text most effectively. It's an eloquent piece, very well written for voices and it conveys well, I think, some of the emotions of valediction, including dignity..

SKU: A0.1387479

SKU: A0.1008681

Awakening sets these words 
I slept and dreamt that life was joy – I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold service was joy.

SKU: A0.596499

Tagoriana

 three pieces for recorder (or flute, or any melodic instrument)

December 2016 - February 2017

I - Kailash, the witty cashier (2:45)

II - We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us (3:15)

III - Friendship is like fluorescence (1:20)

Total Duration: 7:20

The titles are references to the life and writings of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

I

We had an old cashier, Kailash by name, who was like one of the family. He was a great wit, and would be constantly cracking jokes with everybody, old and young; recently married sons-in-law, new comers into the family circle, being his special butts. There was room for the suspicion that his humour had not deserted him even after death. Once my elders were engaged in an attempt to start a postal service with the other world by means of a planchette. At one of the sittings the pencil scrawled out the name of Kailash. He was asked as to the sort of life one led where he was. Not a bit of it, was the reply. Why should you get so cheap what I had to die to learn?

Rabindranath Tagore: My Reminiscences | Chapter 2: Teaching Begins (1912)

 II

 We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Rabindranath Tagore: Stray Birds (1916)

III

The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

Rabindranath Tagore (source unknown to the composer).

Find the teaser of a piccolo version by Cecilia Piehl on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/jCKO6WREb38

If you prefer a hard copy (on paper) of these three pieces, head for Edition Tre Fontane, Münster (ETF 3085), 2020.

https://edition-tre-fontane.de/produkt/solare-juan-maria-1966-tagoriana-etf-3085/

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