The Breathing Night
Instrumentation: SSAA Chorus, Piano or SATB Chorus, piano
Year Composed: 2002
Duration: 6 minutes
Text by: Olga Cabral (text is in English)
Pages: 15
Cost: Purchase: $2.00 a copy. (Discounts for large volume sales are possible.)
Play The Breathing Night, as performed by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Women's Choir, Gary Mabry, conductor.
a huge dark animal breathing
as earth keeps time breathing
as sleeping birds respire
breathing softly in and out
wrapped in their folded wings
as fish at rest in dark waters
breathe darkness through their gills
as trees and grasses breathe
each leaf and blade together
and the whole planet turns
upon its side inhaling exhaling
dreaming its green dream.
The Breathing Night is reprinted with the kind permission of the estate of Olga Cabral.
From the book The Green Dream, Contact II Publications, 1990.
From the book The Green Dream, Contact II Publications, 1990.
