Katarina Pustinek Rakar Two Songs of Spring

2018

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The Slovenian composer Katarina Pustinek Rakar (b. 1979) studied music theory, oboe, singing, and composition in Ljubljana. She is actively involved with the best Slovenian choirs, is a member of the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, and teaches sol-fa and music theory at the Ljubljana Conservatory. Her compositions comprise mainly vocal music (children’s songs, works for youth, women’s, male voice, and mixed choirs), and she is regularly commissioned to write for these groups. In 2018 she became fascinated and inspired by poems by the English writer Christina G. Rossetti (1830–1894). She soon set some of her poems, including the two featured here. Another Spring is lyrical and expressive, and The First Spring Day a very lively choral piece.
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  • 1. Another Spring

    If I might see another Spring,
    I’d not plant summer flowers and wait:
    I’d have my crocuses at once,
    my leafless pink mezereons,
    my chill-veined snowdrops, choicer yet
    my white or azure violet,
    leaf-nested primrose: anything
    to blow at once, not late.

    If I might see another Spring
    I’d listen to the daylight birds
    that build their nests and pair and sing,
    nor wait for mateless nightingale;
    I’d listen to the lusty herds,
    the ewes with lambs as white as snow,
    I’d find out music in the hail
    and all the winds that blow.

    If I might see another Spring –
    Oh stinging comment on my past
    that all my past results in “if” –

    ...

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  • The Slovenian composer Katarina Pustinek Rakar (b. 1979) studied music theory, oboe, singing, and composition in Ljubljana. She is actively involved with the best Slovenian choirs, is a member of the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, and teaches sol-fa and music theory at the Ljubljana Conservatory. Her compositions comprise mainly vocal music (children’s songs, works for youth, women’s, male voice, and mixed choirs), and she is regularly commissioned to write for these groups. Personal details

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