Document title Som presente desse mar futuro, Voz da terra ansiando pelo mar
Date of Composition · 2024
King Dinis
In the night, the planter of ships-yet-to-be
Writes one of his troubadour's poems
And he listens to a murmuring silence within him:
It is the whisper of the pine groves which,
Like a cornfield of Empire, undulate unseen.
Like a brook, that song, young and pure,
Searches out the ocean-to-be-found;
And the talk of the pine groves, dull rumble,
Is the present sound of that future ocean,
Is the call of the land yearning for the sea.
(translation 1997 Prof. Mike Harland)
A piece that originates in the central section (a kind of extended cadenza of the 4 soloists) of the previous work
and that extends to other places, other pine forests and seas, into the future, which incorporates other sounds and
the spoken word.
Ana Seara
