Dragana i slaveja - International Virtual Balkan Community Choir
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2021
- KITKA Women's Vocal Ensemble and Zado Eastern European Vocal Ensemble co-present:
“Dragana i slaveja”
Bulgarian folk song from Elin Pelin, in a setting by Philip Koutev and Maria Kouteva
Performed by International Virtual Balkan Community Choir Project
Directed by Tzvetanka Varimezova
DRAGANA I SLAVEJA (Dragana and the Nightingale)
Dragana sits in the garden,
In the garden under a white rose bush
She embroiders, she sings a song.
Above her a nightingale speaks:
“Let’s have a singing contest.
If you outsing me,
You will cut off my wings.
If I outsing you,
I will cut off your hair.”
Dragana outsang the nightingale.
The nightingale sadly pleaded with her,
“Cut off my legs
But don’t cut my wings.
I’ve hatched little chicks.”
“Dear little nightingale, little bird,
I don’t want to cut anything.
For me, it is enough of an honor that
I outsang a nightingale.”
Our international virtual choir is honored to sing this great composition as part of our 2020-21 “Artistry of Balkan Singing” project, supported in part by funds from the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and donations from generous individuals. We were led by choral director, master vocalist and teacher, Tzvetanka Varimezova, who is loved throughout the world for her clear, brilliant folkloric soprano voice. We dedicate this recording to the memory of Philip Koutev, to his family, and to the ensemble that bears his name. We are grateful to the Koutev family for allowing us to publish this recording and to Bulgarian-American visual artist, Biliana Stremska, for permission to feature her beautiful painting at the beginning of the video.
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Video editing by John Nilsen, John Nilsen Studios.
Audio mixing and mastering by Craig Long, Paradise Studios, and Jan Volkoff.
Project direction by Jan Volkoff, Tzvetanka Varimezova, Michele Simon, and Shira Cion, with special thanks to Zado and Kitka members.
ARTWORK CREDITS:
Dragana i slaveja - mome Dragano watercolor painting from “Paintings of Bulgarian Folk Songs” collection, used with permission from artist Biliana Stremska
COMPOSITION/PUBLISHER CREDITS:
“Dragani I Slavei”
Written by Filipe Tenev Koutev and Mariyka Vassileva Kouteva
Carthage Music Ltd. / CTM Publishing BV
By special arrangement with Concord
Please help to support Zado’s and Kitka’s work sharing the beauty, complexity, styles, and artistry of Balkan music and cultivating community and cross-cultural understanding through song:
Zado Eastern European Vocal Ensemble
www.zadosings.org
Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble
www.kitka.org 
Развлечения
So stunning that it brings tears to my eyes.
Stunning achievement - extremely moving on so many levels. And Biljana's artwork is Sweetness itself... Perfectly in harmony. Congratulations to everyone 💞🌷
I cry every time.
Thank you so much for this heart opening.
It was lovely seeing all these faces, some of them new to me, some of them well-woven into the tapestry of my life.
-Lorna Shashinda
Such beauty from so many very different lives and experiences in far corners of the world! I wonder about these lovely artists, what their lives are like, what makes them feel most alive, what is precious to them? Sending each of them prayers and good wishes from my heart, Siddika
Inspirational. Love knows no borders. We are all human, with the same hopes and sentiments. We all come together to celebrate music, life, humanity, regardless of who we are, where we are, what we do. Thank you so much.
Thank you for these beautiful words, Dor!
@@shiracion1164 I attended your F&S concert with my wife and two teenagers (17 & 15 yo) -- It was the highlight of our season. We have many fond memories. We were particularly impressed how your unique voices both blended and stood out, if that makes sense. The Balkan jerky tempi and incandescent dissonances are like mental yoga on a roller coaster -- once you let go and go with the flow, you're transported and transmogriphied to emergent strata of terrestrial phenomenology. May you thrive and flourish. Yishar ko'akh!
Just saw this live, second song performed, and it was wonderful. I was so grateful to finally see Wintersongs!
So glad you could be there with us at the Freight on Saturday!
What an amazing accomplishment! Such gorgeous singing. I would love to sing in a choir like this.
Such a moving piece and such beautiful voices behind it.
Moved me to tears as usual. i miss you so much! -jody b.
Thank you for elevating my day!!
Incredible!
Как КРАСИВО!!! Ласкает слух!💖
Beautifully mastered! Thank you, sound engineers!
Bravo!
Brilliant! Sounds truly Bulgarian - just like "Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares" 😃
it's the same music indeed! :-)
Amazing! [recommend] Use headphones for an even higher ecstatic experience.
Beautiful singing and gorgeous song. I learned Dragana singing with Janet and Zele and I LOVED it! Thanks so much for this!
BRAVO!
I saw and heard a recording of this beautiful song many years ago, and was so happy to come upon this one! Thank you so much! I love it, the performance is amazing.
Спасибо большое за удивительный, бесценный опыт! За потрясающий материал, который помогает открывать широту и красоту славянской культуры!
So lovely!!!
Thank you so much Myra! I hope you sang along!
Прекрасный хор. Полифония супер. Теперь буду знать, что соловей по-болгарски СЛАВЕЯ.
It's славей. Славея is the short version of the definite article, used when the noun is not the grammatical subject.
Много красиво!!
Would have loved to participate in this project! How do we get involved in future ones? Greetings from New Zealand!
Slightly more accurate lyrics:
Dragana sits in a garden, (mome* Dragan[a], Dragan[a])
A garden, under white rosehip, (mome Dragana, Dragana)
Embroiders and a song sings. (mome Dragana, Dragana)
Above her a nightingale speaks; (mome Dragana, Dragana)
"Sing, let us compete, (mome Dragana, Dragana)
Should you outsing me, (mome Dragana, Dragana),
My wings you shall cut. (mome Dragana, Dragana)
Should I outsing you, (mome Dragana, Dragana),
Your hair I shall cut." (mome Dragana, Dragana).
Dragana outsings the nightingale, (mome Dragana, Dragana)
The nightingale pitifully begs; (mome Dragana, Dragana)
"My legs cut, (mome Dragana, Dragana),
My wings, don't take them, (mome Dragana, Dragana)
Little chicks I have hatched." (mome Dragana, Dragana)
"Little nightingale, little bird, (mome Dragana, Dragana)
I desire to cut nothing. (mome Dragana, Dragana)
For me, it suffices, the honour (mome Dragana, Dragana)
That a nightingale I have outsang." (mome Dragana, Dragana).
*mome = slightly archaic Bulgarian word for young, unmarried lady, equivalent to the French 'madmoiselle'.
There is nothing archaic about mome. And it is mome DraganO ( vocative)