MUSIC BY AREND VAN TEUTEM

 

CD


Unprecedented events have been taking place in North Africa and the Middle East as 2011 unfolds. Tunisia set the ball rolling and once the Egyptian regime had fallen events seemed unstoppable.

Here is a musical reaction: Cairo Spring, for soprano solo and piano.

Cairo Spring

Seeds of hope
Decades of dark
Sprung to life
Crushed underfoot

Guns set aside
Loyalty gone
A new army
for the people!


Cards falling
all around
edgy open
conversations

Look see
old world 
receding rapidly

Seedlings could
together
in tender care
steel against darkness
grow.   Grow!