Three Haiku
Original version for 12-part choir (1999-2000)
Performance Materials
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Program Note
Poems
In Danish
Digtene til de 3 satser er af den gamle japanske digter Bashō gendigtet af den danske digter Hans-Jørgen Nielsen: HAIKU – en introduktion og 150 gendigtninger
Tempelklokken
Tempelklokken
dør hen
Blomsternes
dufte
Kimer videre
Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
Havet formørkes
Havet
formørkes
Mågens
skrig
Blir
blege
Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
Verden én farve
Verden
én farve
Og vindens
hvislen
Det er
vinter
Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
In English
The text for the three movements are haiku poems by the old Japanese poet Bashō, rewritten to danish by Hans-Jørgen Nielsen: HAIKU – en introduktion og 150 gendigtninger (Haiku – an introduction and 150 rewritings)
The temple bell
The temple bell dies away
The scent of flowers in the evening
Is still tolling the bell.
R. H. Blyth
The Sea
Seas slowly darken
and the wild duck’s plaintive cry
grows faintly white
Unknown
The world one color
The world one color,
and the wind hissing
it’s winter
Unknown
Audio Archive
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Studio Recording , Studio recording from a workshop by Ars Nova at Danish Radio, Studio 2► Tempelklokken (The temple bell) ► Havet (The sea) ► Verden én farve (The world one color)
Performances
First Performance
Wednesday 3 March 1999 – Ars Nova – Danish Radio, Studio 2, Workshop
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