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Jo Kondo
"Snow's Falling" (2001)
The Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus
Piano, Satoko Inoue

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"Snow's Falling….", a 1929 poem by Chuya Nakahara:

yuki ga futte-iru
toku-wo
yuki ga futte-iru
toku-wo
suterareta hitsuji ka nannzo-no-yoni
toku-wo
yuki ga futte-iru
toku-wo
takai sora kara
toku-wo
toku-wo
toku-wo
yuki ga futte-iru
otera no yane nimo
sore kara
otera no mori nimo
sore kara
taemamo nashi-ni
sora kara
yuki ga futte-iru
sore kara
heieii ni yuku michi-nimo
sore kara
hi ga kure-kakaru
sore kara
rappa ga kikoeru
sore kara
yuki ga futte-iru
naomo.

Snow's falling …..

Snow is falling,
in the distance.
Snow is falling
in the distance.
Like abandoned sheep
in the distance.
Snow is falling,
in the distance.
From high in the sky,
in the distance,
in the distance,
in the distance
On the temple roof,
and then,
On the temple woods,
and then,
Incessantly,
from the sky
Snow is falling
and then,
On the road to the soldier's camp,
and then,
Toward dusk,
and then,
[I] hear a bugle.
and then,
Snow is falling,
still


雪が降つてゐる ∙∙∙∙

雪が降つてゐる、
とほくを。
雪が降つてゐる
とほくを。
捨てられた羊かなんぞのやうに
とほくを。
雪が降つてゐる、
とほくを。
たかい空から、
とほくを、
とほくを
とほくを
お寺の屋根にも、
それから、
お寺の森にも、
それから、
たえまもなしに、
空から
雪が降つてゐる
それから、
兵営にゆく道にも、
それから、
日が暮れかゝる、
それから、
喇叭がきこえる。
それから、
雪が降つてゐる、
なほも。

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Musical Observations, Inc. is a non-profit corporation founded by Paul Zukofsky in 1975 to promote new music and support musical projects he felt would otherwise be ignored. Today Musical Observations, Inc. carries on his legacy by making available the recordings on his CP² label and his critical writings on (mostly) music available at our website. ... more

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