See score at: http://sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portf...

English Poetic Translation: 

Dansing Rara is freeing
Dansing Rara is unleeching
Take advantage of this moment
It will pass and won't come back

Whoever you may be
This Rara will make you move
The crowd's getting their groove on
The smell of love is rising
Come, come shake your body

Dansing Rara is freeing
Dansing Rara is unleeching
Take advantage of this moment
It will pass and won't come back

Come, come shake your body

Forget your worries at home
Come dance with all your heart
Come and sooth all the cracks of your conscience
Come and add to the groove of the band
Come and bare your soul 
Come, dance, come feel the rhythm 

Let the music play on 
Let the beat ride
All together we dance
We dance till we drop

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Haitian Creole Text by 
Louis M. Celestin & Sydney Guillaume

Danse Rara se libète
Danse Rara se defoulman
Profite de moman sa
Li prale li pap tounen

Ou te mèt sa ou te ye
Rara sa ap fè'ou bouje
Moun sou moun ape grouye
Odè lanmou ape monte
Vini, vin souke kò-ou
(Welele, Welele, Welele!)

Danse Rara se libète
Danse Rara se defoulman
Profite de moman sa
Li prale li pap tounen

Vini, vin souke kò-ou

Bliye touman mizè lakay-ou
Vin danse ake tout kè-ou
Vin soulaje tout fant konsyans-ou
Vin ogmante filing nan bann nan
Vin devide tout mwèl nan kò-ou
Vini danse, vin kadanse

Kite mizik la roule 
Kite bit la mache
Ansan'm ansan'm n'ape danse
N'ape danse jouk sa kaba

Blogodop - Mt. San Antonio College Chamber Singers

Commissioned by Classical Movements' Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program
2012: Chinese Bright Sheng – A Porter's Song 
• For Yale Glee Club 
• World premiere: November 2012 at Woolsey Hall (New Haven, Connecticut); Jeffrey Douma, conductor

Unknown album (12/19/2016 1:14:09 PM)

Bright Sheng, A Porter's Song (2012)

Discussion - Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Brian Bell Interview)

Performed by SoNAM in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Contact composer/self-publisher at www.MBQStudio.com for more details.

Nigra Sum (2017) |  Bussewitz-Quarm

Yale Concert Band
Ryan Lindveit, guest conductor
Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT
April 13,  2018

Don't Be Evil: Fanfare for Band is an irreverent critique of Big Tech neoliberalism, especially as practiced by Google, which celebrated its 20th birthday in 2018. The puzzling motto "Don't be evil" is part of Google’s corporate code of conduct. The idea that one of the world's largest tech companies would have to tell itself not to be evil in the way it handles user data is both wildly hilarious and extremely dark. Given that 2018 was also the 50th birthday of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, fragments of the song "Daisy Bell" (sung by the antagonist computer system HAL 9000 while it’s being shut down) appear in the piece in various guises.

Don't Be Evil: Fanfare For Band

The Optimistic Youth Reporters from Khayelitsha in Cape Town, recently attended a highly-sought after concert by the acclaimed Minnesota Orchestra in the city. The youth reporters mingled with celebrity guests and interviewed  members of the orchestra about this historic tour to South Africa.
The Minnesota Orchestra was on a five-city tour of South Africa, marking the first visit to the country by a professional U.S. orchestra. 
The tour was  part of the worldwide celebration of Nelson Mandela's Centenary.
The concerts showcased music that derived from South African, American and European musical traditions, ranging from Beethoven’s Fifth and Ninth Symphonies to a world premiere by South African composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen which was written in tribute to Mandela.

Radio Workshop  Minnesota Orchestra

Excerpt from Brian Bartoldus' "Magnificat" commissioned and performed by The City Choir of Washington. Recorded live in performance by Arts Laureate, Sunday, April 22, 2018 at National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC. Featuring Crossley Danielle Hawn, Soprano. Robert Shafer, Conductor.

Suscepit Israel (Excerpt)

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