Details
- Instrument:
- Piano Piano Accompaniment Voice Solo
- Ensembles:
- Small Ensemble
- Genres:
- Standards Graduation Contemporary
- Composers:
- Greg Bartholomew
- Publishers:
- Burke & Bagley
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Set of Parts Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Late Intermediate
- Artist:
- Greg Bartholomew
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 14
SKU: A0.787341
Composed by Greg Bartholomew. Concert,Contemporary,Graduation,Standards. Score and parts. 14 pages. Burke & Bagley #2807631. Published by Burke & Bagley (A0.787341).United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan was awarded the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. The text for this piece is adapted from his Nobel Lecture given on December 10, 2001. The lecture text is Copyright © 2001 by The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 2001, and is used by permission.
This work was originally written for unaccompanied mixed choir. It was adapted for solo voice with optional violin for Michael Oriatti.
A Girl Born in Afghanistan
Today, in Afghanistan, a girl will be born.
Her mother will hold her and feed her,
comfort her and care for her –
just as any mother would anywhere in the world.
In these basic acts of human nature, humanity knows no divisions.
We must focus on improving the conditions of men and women. We must begin with the young Afghan girl.
Saving that one life is to save humanity itself.
In this new century, we must start from understanding
Peace must be made real and tangible in the daily lives of every man and woman.
The notion that what is ours must conflict with what is theirs is both false and dangerous. It has resulted in endless enmity and conflict.
It has led men to commit great crimes in the name of a higher power.
It need not be so.
We can love what we are, without hating what we are not, without hating who we are not.
The girl born in Afghanistan today is just one test of our humanity – But it is the only test that matters.
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- Series:
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- Artists:
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- Ensemble:
- Small Ensemble
- Publisher:
- Burke & Bagley