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Dobrinka Tabakova

Of the Sun Born

Subtitlefor unaccompanied mixed choir and soprano solo
Text informationtext by Blaga Dimitrova (extract from ‘От Слънце Родена’ / ‘Of the Sun Born’)
Year(s) composed2008
PublisherPSNY
Duration5'
PremiereJuly 3, 2008; Great Hall, University of Latvia, Riga; Riga Youth Choir "Kamēr…” • Māris Sirmais, conductor
CommissionCommissioned by Riga Youth Choir “Kamēr…” as part of their World Sun Songs project
LanguageBulgarian
Composer note

Of the Sun Born (free translation by the composer)

The moment I raise my head and suddenly face
The starry night (eye in eye we look at each other- the stars and I)
And as I sense the faint greeting of the universe
It is as though the beaming flicker sounds.

And I, a drop in this Infinity,
Refract her glance and her voice. It is then that I know for certain:
As Earth was born of the Sun
So too am I of the Sun born.