DOS PALABRAS by Ivo Antognini (SATB, a cappella)

“DOS PALABRAS” has been released by Alliance Music Publications, Inc.

 

It’s a setting of a love poem by Alfonsina Storni.

Alfonsina Storni (1892 – 1938) was born in Ponte Capriasca, a small village in Ticino (Switzerland) which is 15 km from where I live.

When she was four, her family moved to Argentina where she soon began writing poems. Alfonsina lived an unconventional and adventurous

life punctuated by difficulties and misfortunes. She was a teacher, actress, journalist, writer and single mother who faced the many challenges

and prejudices of twentieth–century Buenos Aires. In the summer of 1935, she found out that she had breast cancer and was treated with surgery,

but the disease continued to spread. In 1938, in Mar del Plata, she committed suicide by walking into the ocean and drowning.

“Dos Palabras” is an extraordinary love poem that I’ve translated into music, trying to preserve all the sensuality, the passion and the freshness which is evident in the poem.

 

LISTEN HERE – stunning performance by the SALT LAKE VOCAL ARTISTS conducted by Dr. Brady Allred

 

ORDER and have a look at the score

 

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