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Carol Barnett
Carol Barnett (Beady Eyes)
Variaçao
In this rhythmically delightful lullaby, women’s sprightly nonsense syllables contrast with lyrical men’s entreaties, finally converging as the choir sings the child to sleep.
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“Variaçao” sets a shifting pentatonic melody invented by composer Janika Vandervelde as a calming influence during a harrowing car ride on her visit to Portugal. The piece creates a dialogue between the men’s soothing melody and the women’s quicker nonsense syllables — differing ways of putting a child to sleep. As the piece reaches its resolution, the men’s and women’s parts converge, coalescing into a single chord as sleep arrives.
Composer’s Notes
Variacao was commissioned in 2000 by Janika Vandervelde as part of a musical birthday present to her fiancé, Larry Fuchsberg. It was premiered on the Dale Warland Singers’ Echoes of Christmas
concerts in December 2000, and is based on a beautiful and calming lullaby that she imagined and sang to him as they toured the Portuguese countryside in a rented car, nerves jangled by the poor roads and terrifying fellow drivers.
– Carol Barnett
Text
Boyo-yo balu Boyo-yo balu
Dorma. Ador, adormeça.
Lalow Boyo lalow Boyo
balu o meu menino doce.
Sleep. Go to sleep
my sweet little boy
– Traditional Lullaby
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