¡Body: Palaran: Poems Of Love And War
¡Kenneth Young (conductor), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
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[Machine Translation] Jack Bodie ( 1944 ) is highly regarded as one of New Zealand's leading contemporary composers. Many of his works deal with current issues, including his opera "Alley," which is based on the life of the New Zealand social activist Leewi Alley. The aria sung by the elderly Alley, who has lived a life of physical exertion to improve the poor conditions he saw Chinese laborers working under, recalls his own youth, and is movingly sung with a Chinese twang. The aria "My Name is Mok Bong," inspired by the Cambodian genocide, and "Balarang," derived from Javanese gamelan music, will be sung by a female violinist from Japan. Meditation" is dedicated to a Japanese female violinist, and "Poems of solitary delights" is based on Japanese poet Akebonan Tachibana's "Dokuraku Gin," a collection of poems that begins with the words "The joy of music. All of them are exotic, mysterious and beautiful.
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