Buufis
Delivered August 10th, 2023
What You Get!
Full score
Prerecorded video with composer Michael Bussewitz-Quarm, lyricist Euan Tait, and author of the book City of Thorns, Ben Rawlence.
A live Zoom session with Michael will be included for the first 20 ensembles who join.
Description
“Buufis…is a kind of depression rooted in an inextinguishable hope for a life elsewhere that simultaneously casts the present into shadow.” - Ben Rawlence, City of Thorns
DURATION
4~5 minutes
DIFFICULTY
Moderately Difficult
ARRANGEMENTS
SATB divisi, with piano and cello accompaniement
THEMES
Hope vs. Despair; Refugees; Personal Space; Belonging; Time.
“A child cries into the wind: ‘Now I wait; I cannot bear longing that turns my blood to molten lead. I am absent here; I am nowhere.”
-Lyricist, Euan Tait
Ready to join?
Contribution: $200 a choir
Deadline to join: October 28th, 2023
Music delivery: August 10th, 2023