Flor d'escarabat

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BEETLE FLOWER
Albert Roig wrote the second and third part of this cantata on poems by Manoel de Barros' and with the intention of giving it a Mediterranean and peasant character. The child should represent the voice of the tree and its heaven in them. It is a dream in which the old olive tree, the daybreak and the flow of the water sing, while the child listens to them enchantedly. And it sings them. It is the dream that reaches from daybreak to sunset. Bernardo is the main character, who acts as a scarecrow to help the vegetable garden grow. His mission consists in standing still amongst the trees, near the river and its frogs, out in the open' And suddenly, Barros' scarecrow turns into a bird and starts flying.
The music was written by Carles Santos, who expresses the sonority of all this nature by means of a soloist, a choir, a piano, a bass drum, a drum, a marimba, a xylophone, a whip, timpani, a tam-tam, etc.