AGUA VEN
Music and Lyricsby Jorge Alejandro Salazar
Notes from the score: "This emotional canon is a cry for water that does not return on the Casanare plains, it alludes to the severe drought that faced this region during the first half of the year 2014. This piece culminates in an energetic counterpoint that celebrates the arrival of water and 'Rainbow of colors.'" Sustainable tourism as a recovery strategy - thoughts?
Originally composed for children's choir, a commission "awarded by the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra in a composition competition for youth and children choirs in 2014." - Estefanía Riveros
Agua ven que el llano se muere de sed
No tardes más que mi llano
No quiere ver secar su color
Los ganados se quieren saciar con tu frescar.
Oh lluvia que no vienes ¿cuándo llegarás?
Arcoíris de sol y de lluvia ven pronto
Agua, lluvia, cielo gris.
Ven lluvia que te espera la mañana
Ven lluvia que los pájaros no can tan
Ven lluvia que mi llano pierde el alma
Ven lluvia gris.
Arcoíris de colores ven pronto
Flores, lluvia, cielo nuevo, fiesta de colores
Y un mundo bello a tus pies para amar y cuidar.
Water, they see that the plain is dying of thirst
Don't take more than my plain
You don't want to see your color dry
The cattle want to be satiated with your coolness.
Oh rain you don't come, when will you arrive?
Rainbows of sun and rain come soon
Water, rain, gray sky.
Come rain, the morning awaits you
Come rain, the birds can't sing
Come rain, for my plain loses its soul
Come gray rain.
Rainbow of colors, come soon
Flowers, rain, new sky, a fiesta of colors
And a beautiful world at your feet to love and care for.
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