Meciendo – Carol Barnett

Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Gabriela Mistral Instrumentation: SATB a cappella Duration: Approx. 1'30" minutes Date Written:  1978 Composer’s note: Gabriela Mistral’s little poem “Meciendo” first appeared in Ternura, the second collection of her poetry, published in 1924 in Spain. This lullaby was written in 1978 for a small but intrepid choir of composers – one of the projects of the Minnesota (now American) Composers Forum. – Carol Barnett text MECIENDO El mar sus millares de olasmece, divino.Oyendo a los mares amantes,mezo a mi niño. El viento errabundo en la nochemece a los trigos.Oyendo a los vientos amantes,mezo a mi niño. Dios Padre sus miles de mundosmece sin ruido.Sintiendo su mano en la sombra,mezo a mi niño. Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957)   The sea divinely rocksits thousands of waves.Listening to the loving waters,I rock my child. The wind, wandering in the night,rocks the fields of wheat.Listening to the loving winds,I rock my child. God the Father noiselessly rockshis t