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May 31, 2010

Video Clip from Chorale

Dear reader:

A video clip from Sunday's Autumn Chorale here in Rafaela! It was great to hear all the different groups and the neighborhood center we sang in was PACKED to the brim. Although the visual is blurry, you can hear the Rafaela Chamber Choir singing one of the Argentine folk songs from our repetoire, Una Pena Nuevamente. Gracias to Sergio (and his wife) for filming and sharing the clip!

I hope you enjoy it!



Here's the text, for those Spanishly-inclined and my roughshod translation:

Una pena nuevamente me está quitando la vida.
Sorrow is once again taking my life.

El remedio es olvidar... y el remedio se me olvida.
The cure is to forget... and I've forgotten the cure.

A mi todos me aconsejan y me obligan que te diga,
Everyone advises me and obliges me to tell you,

que tu mucha ingratitud, me está quitando la vida, ay la vida!
that all of your ungratefulness is taking my life, oh my life!

Si quiero querer y olvidar que pasión será la mía,
If I wanted to love and forget, what kind of passion would mine be?

te quisiera aborrecer... y el remedio se me olvida.
I would like to loathe you... and I've forgotten the cure.