TERRE-NEUVE

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featuring Choeur Adleisia directed by Amelia McMahon and Virginie Pacheco

National Youth Orchestra of Canada directed by Maestro Jonathan Darlington

LYRICS

Terre
éclaboussée du cri d’un soleil
aux couleurs d’océan
de roc
fauve la falaise se brise craquements de glace
goût frais de neige qui fait trembler la mémoire ensevelie
se mêle de vent
s’enroule au sel d’une joie
Neuve

poet Annick Perrot-Bishop

translation

Land
splattered with shrieks of sun
with colours of ocean and
rock
rust-red the cliff splits
crackling ice
a fresh taste of shivering snow
stirs a shrouded memory
mingles with the wind
spirals vibrant with the salt of a joy New found