Cantos Sagrados 麥克米倫．詹姆士 總譜 博浩版

作曲家注釋 在創作這部作品時，我希望創作出既永恆又現代、既神聖又世俗的作品。因此，標題（《神聖之歌》）稍有誤導，因為這三首詩關注的是拉丁美洲的政治壓迫，並特意與傳統宗教經文相結合，以強調與該次大陸窮人更深層次的團結。正是我對解放神學的興趣，讓我在《Búsqueda》（一部早期的音樂劇作品）中將阿根廷五月廣場母親的詩歌與拉丁彌撒經文結合起來，現在又在《Cantos Sagrados》中嘗試類似的思想綜合。阿里爾-多夫曼詩歌中的聲音屬於那些遭受特殊政治壓迫的人：政治犯的 "失蹤"。安娜-瑪麗亞-門多薩（Ana Maria Mendoza）關於瓜德羅普島聖女的詩歌通過提出一個更基本的文化和歷史問題來解決同樣的問題

作曲家: MacMillan, James
樂器: mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes

曲目:
Identity - Sun Stone - Virgin of Guadalupe

原文簡介:
Composer's Notes In writing this work I wanted to compose something which was both timeless and contemporary, both sacred and secular. The title (Sacred Songs) is therefore slightly misleading as the three poems are concerned with political repression in Latin America and are deliberately coupled with traditional religious texts to emphasise a deeper solidarity with the poor of that sub-continent. It was my interest in Liberation Theology which made me combine the poems of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina with the texts of the Latin mass in Búsqueda (an earlier music-theatre work) and has now led me to attempt a similar synthesis of ideas in Cantos Sagrados. The voices in Ariel Dorfman’s poems belong to those who suffer a particular type of political repression: the 'disappearance' of political prisoners. Ana Maria Mendoza’s poem about the Virgin of Guadeloupe tackles the same problem by asking a more fundamental cultural and historical question.