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Juan María Solare
Lorem ipsum
for choir a cappella SATB
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/juan-maria-solare/lorem-ipsum-choir-northern-spirit-solare
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uyp8F6qTqw
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,
incididunt ut labore et dolore magna umbra.
Nulla sed leo. Nullam sed purus. Nulla vitae diam sapien. Nulla gravida pretium magna.
Tellus, ventus et ignis. Verbum sapientes defendit.
The Lorem ipsum is a text in pseudo-Latin, loosely inspired in a writing of Cicero[1] and that since the XVI century is used in publishing as filler text. Today it is used with a similar function, in electronic documents or web design. There are several versions of this text (of variable length), all them used to begin in the same way (Lorem ipsum elit) but goon in different fashions. Therefore, I also invented part of the text, taking care of the metric, structural parallelisms and some hidden allusion to popular music (Tellus, ventus et ignis is Earth, Wind and Fire). The last sentence has even some sense: Verbum sapientes defendit means that the word defends to those who know. In the coda, since it is vocally much more practical to finish in m than in t, I changed the last word: "dolor sit ipsum", what carries the existentialist message that pain is oneself.
Musically, the form is a rondo, with an obsessive refrain (based on the sentence we are commenting) which reappears without modifications.
This piece was composed in Bremen (Germany) on 18, 19 and 20 May 2015 (as if from a handbook: one day the text, the following day the music and on the third one big adjustements and the definitive precisions). Lorem ipsum is dedicated to Gonzalo Martín Saldívar.
Premiere by the chamber choir Northern Spirit, conducted by Jaret Choolun, tenth year anniversary concert1 (19th November 2016) at the kleiner Saal of Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany. (https://www.northernspirit.de/kammerchor-bremen/jubilaeumskonzert-in-der-glocke/)
First performance in Latin America: Coro Estable Municipal de Tandil, conducted by Annele Moroder, during the opening concert of the Third Argentine Choral Congress and the First Latin American Choral Congress ("Choral Art and Identity") on May 24, 2018 (at 8:15 PM) at the Tandil Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uyp8F6qTqw).
Juan María Solare
[1] "de Finnibus Bonorum et Malorum" (On the Ends of Good and Evil), sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33, written in the year 45 before Christ. This book -a treatise on ethic theory- was very popular during the Renaissance.
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