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SUMMARY:The Furlen Ensemble Performs Jenni Brandon’s “Love Songs” at The Benefit Concert For Emergency Aid in Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:The Furlen Ensemble performed Jenni Brandon’s  “Love Songs” at the benefit concert for emergency aid in Myanmar  microfinance-thukha-myanmar.com on November 28\, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. The concert takes place at Church of Lausen (Kirche Lausen)\, Lausen\, Switzerland. Kirche Lausen‎ is one of the oldest in northwestern Switzerland.‎ ‎Its architectural history reaches more than 1200 years into the past.‎ ‎It has 160 seats and is available for church services\, other events of the parish and for concerts. \nThe “Furlen Ensemble” plays and sings cheerful and lively instrumental and vocal music from the Baroque and Modern periods with compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach\, Johann Rosenmüller\, Ralph Vaughan Williams & Jenni Brandon. Members of “The Furlen Ensemble“are: \n\nYvonne Yiu Reichert – Cembalo & Klavier\nOlivia Ceresola – Soprano\nArno Reichert – Bass & Viola da Gamba\nAgnès Mauri Galik – Viola\nStefan Hofstetter – Oboe\nKatherina Leimgruber – Cello\n\nAdmission is free. Your contribution to the collection will help the people of Myanmar in their hopeless situation. \nLove Songs for Soprano and Oboe\, by Jenni Brandon\, is a collection of texts that were chosen to tell a story of the Native American woman – a story that she might tell to her child while she rocked the child to sleep. We begin with a lullaby (partially borrowed from a Chippewa lullaby) sung gently to a child\, and then she begins to tell the story of herself. In “Song of Basket-Weaving” she asks the Cedar tree (mother) to prepare her for love\, for bearing children\, and for becoming a woman. In “Song of the Blue-Corn Dance she works with other women to harvest the corn. Falling in love\, she sings a slightly giddy song “Oh I Am Thinking” which evolves into a strong and steadfast song in “Love Song from the Andes.” Then her lover comes to her in “Love Song\,” but it is not too long after that he leaves her for Sault St. Marie in Michigan\, never to return again (Jenni interprets this as death – he’s gone away\, maybe to fight\, or to hunt\, but he will never return to his lover). We assume at this point in the story that the child she sings to is their child\, and she is telling the story of their love. The story ends how it begins\, with the woman back in the present\, continuing to sing a lullaby to her child as life goes on\, without her love by her side. \nIt is a story that can be universally understood\, but points to the strength of not only the Native American woman\, but to the strength of all women to persevere\, to raise children and to keep community strong against all odds. It is a “love song” in that it goes beyond just romantic love\, but tells of love for a child and love of the land. The work may be performed as a whole\, or individual movements may be chosen for a shorter performance. \nRead the text for Love Songs: \nLullaby \nLullaby for children sung by the White Earth Chippewa and the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa as they rocked their children to sleep.\nEd. by Frances Densmore \nSong of Basket-Weaving \nKulasgh*\, Kulasgh\, my mother\,\nI sit at thy knee\nWeaving my basket of grasses\,\nWeaving for my harvest of berries when the Ripe Days come.\nThy fingers gently touch my hair with fragrance\,\nThy mouth drips a song\, for the wind has kissed it –\n(Love sings in thy mouth!) \nThe soil listens and answers;\nI feel a stirring beneath me and hear buds opening\,\nThe river chants thy song and the clouds dance to it.\nTonight the stars will float upon thy singing breath\,\nGleaming like slanting flocks above the sea.\nAll the earth sings; and its voices are one song! \nI alone am silent: I alone\, a maid waiting him\, the Fate\,\nThe Stirring One\, the Planter of the Harvets\,\nThe Basket-Filler. \nKulasgh\, Kulasgh\, Mother!\nSee how beautiful\, how liberal\, is my basket\,\nHow tightly woven for the waters of Love\,\nHow soft for the treading of children’s feet\,\nHow strong to bear them up! \nKulasgh\, Kulasgh\, Mother\, remember me –\nEre the Sunset and the Dropping Leaf! \nInterpretation by Constance Lindsay Skinner. *Kulasgh\, or Cedar Tree\, considered the source of life by the British Columbian Coast Tribes\, as it supplies all their necessities\, even food in fish famine. From The Path on the Rainbow”\, edited by George W. Cronyn\, 1918 \nSong of the Blue-Corn Dance (Zuni) \nBeautiful\, lo\, the summer clouds\,\nBeautiful\, lo\, the summer clouds!\nBlossoming clouds in the sky\,\nLike unto shimmering flowers\,\nBlossoming clouds in the sky\,\nOnward\, lo\, they come\,\nHither\, hither bound! \n(This was apparently a work song sung by the women as they harvested the corn). Translated by Natalie Curtis Burlin. From The Path on the Rainbow”\, edited by George W. Cronyn\, 1918 \nLove Song (Chippewa) \nOh\nI am thinking\nOh\nI am thinking\nI have found my lover\nOh\nI think it is so! \nEd. by Frances Densmore. Washington Bureau of American Ethnology\, Bulletin 45 (1910) \nLove Song from the Andes (Inca) \nTo this my song\nThou shalt sleep.\nIn the dead of night\nI shall come. \nEd. by P. Ainsworth Means\, Ancient Civilizations of the Andes\, Charles Scribner & Sons\, 1931 \nMy Love has Departed (Chippewa) \nA loon\nI though it was\nBut it was\nMy love’s\nSplashing oar. \nTo Sault Ste. Marie\nHe has departed.\nMy love had gone\nOn before me.\nNever again can I see him. \nA loon\nI thought it was\nBut it was never again\nLove’s splashing oar. \nEd. by Frances Densmore\, reworked by Jenni Brandon. Washington Bureau of American Ethnology\, Bulletin 45 (1910) \nVII. Lullaby (Reprise) \nThis work was commissioned and premiered by Aryn Day Sweeney\, oboist and Assistant Professor of Music Performance at Ball State University with funding provided by the Indiana Arts Commission in 2014. It was premiered at Ball State University by Aryn Day Sweeney-oboe and Yoko Shimazaki-Kilburn-soprano in March 2014. \nLove Songs for Soprano and Oboe sheet music is available for purchase from Jenni Brandon Music at Love Songs -soprano and oboe sheet music (jennibrandontest.com)
URL:https://jennibrandontest.com/event/the-furlen-ensemble-performs-jenni-brandons-love-songs-at-the-benefit-concert-for-emergency-aid-in-myanmar/
LOCATION:Kirche Lausen\, Lausen\, Switzerland\, Kirchstrasse 12\, Lausen\, BL\, Basel Landschaft\, 4415\, Switzerland
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