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What the Night Bird Told the Wanderer

by Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra

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Song Yun - Night Bird Singing 夜鶯之歌 i. Adagio: Piu Mosso: Encore Piu Mosso: Adagio 10:34
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Song Yun - Night Bird Singing 夜鶯之歌 ii. Adagio: Piu Mosso: Cadenza: Adagio 08:27
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Song Yun - Night Bird Singing 夜鶯之歌 iii. Adagio: Piu Mosso: Encore Piu Mosso: Adagio: Piu Mosso: Encore Piu Mosso: Allegro 07:09
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Amir Haghighi - Dreams of the Wanderer - Movement I. Ahavat Hadasa (The Love of Hadasa) 09:30
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Ahavat Hadasa (Love of Hadasa) by Shalem Shabazi (17th Century, Hebrew) Ahavat hadasa al l'vavi niksh'ra, va-ani b'tokh gola p'amai tsol'lim. Lu yesh r'shut' li e-ele etkhab'ra tokh sha-arei tsiyon asher hem nah'l'lim. Shakhrit v'arvit bat n'divim ezk'ra libi v'ra'yonai b'kheshek niv'halim. Bi-n'-im z'mirot min'dod et-or'ra va-ani v'ra'yati b'rina tsohalim. ------------------------------------------- My heart is bound to Hadassah* in love, but my feet are sinking in the depths of exile. When will He give me leave to go up and make my home within the extolled gates of Zion? Morning and evening I call to mind the Princess.** My heart and my mind reel with desire. With sweet song I shall shake off the pain of separation, and then my dearest and I will loudly rejoice. ------------------------------------ * The Land of Israel (Esther 2:7) ** The Shekhina (the feminine aspect of divine presence) - Translation and notes by T. Carmi
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Amir Haghighi - Dreams of the Wanderer - Movement II. You Zi Yin (Song of the Wanderer); The Dying Hours 09:35
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The Dying Hours by Moshe Denburg Time was when i loved you in my dreams of silent wandering oh how i wish to lie with you again like the earth and the rain like the sun and the flowers to see all worlds pass before our eyes and embrace far beyond the dying hours.
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Amir Haghighi - Dreams of the Wanderer - Movement III. Nasime Shiraz (Breeze of Home) 07:58
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Nasime Shiraaz (Breeze of Home) by Hafez (14th century, Farsi) Namaaze shaame gharibaan cho geriye aaghaazam be muyehaaye gharibaane ghesse pardaazam. Be yaade yaar-o diyaar anchenaan begeryam zaar ke az jahaan raho rassme safar barandaazam. Man az diyaare habibam na-az belaade gharib mohaimena be rafighaane khod rasaan baazam. Havaaye manzele yaar aabe zendegaaniye maast sabaa biyaar nasimi zekhaake shiraazam. ----------------------------- (Translation in paraphrase) I begin my prayer in tears In my tears I tell stories. In the memory of home and friends I cry so hard and sadly that I cause all separation to vanish. I am from the home of the beloved not the place of strangers oh god, take me to my friends, believers like me in the beloved. The breath of the home of the beloved is water of life, north wind, bring a fragrant breeze from Shiraz (my home).

about

In 2011, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO), we staged several events and concerts. Two of these, namely Classical Meets Intercultural, and Orchestral Evolution, featured large scale original works – Night Bird Singing by Mark Armanini and Dreams of the Wanderer by Moshe Denburg – and we took the opportunity at that time to formally record them. The years intervening have been busy ones for the VICO, during which it has developed and grown constantly, in its size and its scope of activities. As 2021 marks the VICO’s 20th anniversary, we thought it appropriate to release these recording together, in celebration of this milestone. We have both been with the VICO pretty well from its beginnings in 2001, and, in various capacities we have nurtured it over its first two decades. So, as two vintage director/composers of the orchestra we are proud to be putting this recording out into the world together.

It is not easy to predict the future of any important cultural entity, but let us say that the orchestra has grown in stature over the years, and true to the titles of its concert productions in 2011, it remains dedicated to the principles of having classical sensibilities be enhanced by a world of intercultural possibilities, and, by so doing, enabling the very concept of the orchestra to evolve. This has been and still is the task at hand, and we can only hope that our offerings here will give the listener a new and optimistic vista on this truly Canadian interculturalism.

~ Mark Armanini (Artistic Director)
& Moshe Denburg (Founding Artistic Director)

credits

released March 17, 2023

Night Bird Singing
Recorded by Don Xaliman in 2011
at Pacific Spirit United Church (formerly Ryerson United Church), Vancouver, BC

Dreams of the Wanderer
Recorded by Don Xaliman in 2011
at The Rothstein Theatre, Vancouver, BC

Editing and Mixing:
- Night Bird Singing: Don Xaliman (Energy Discs) and Sheldon Zaharko (Zed Productions)
- Dreams of the Wanderer:Sheldon Zaharko (Zed Productions)
Mastering: Sheldon Zaharko
Co-Producers: Mark Armanini and Moshe Denburg
Album cover image (Earthrise over Vancouver skyline): Alistair Eagle
Album cover design: Melanie Thompson
Photos: Alistair Eagle
Photo of Yun Song: Don Xaliman

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Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra Vancouver, British Columbia

The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, founded in 2001, was one of the first ensembles of its kind in the world. The VICO brings together musicians & composers from many cultural
and artistic communities in the greater Vancouver area. Described as "the United Nations of music", we create and perform orchestral music that transcends boundaries: cultural, social, political, geographical. ... more

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