A bountiful year is going to come.
A bountiful year is coming throughout the land.
Thought about everything in this world:
Sung in Korean
– Trad. Samoan, arr. Christopher Marshall
Born in Paris of New Zealander parents, Christopher Marshall (b. 1956) received his
early music education in New South Wales, Australia and in Wellington, New Zealand.
Primarily a self-taught composer, Marshall holds a Master of Music degree with
both from Trinity College, London. In 1994, Marshall was appointed to the position
of Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin for two years. In 1996 he
completed an 18-month composer residency at the Eastman School of Music on a
Fulbright grant, and in 2006, served as Composer-in-Residence at the University of
Central Florida. Marshall currently lives in Orlando.
Commissioned in 1993 by the New Zealand Secondary Schools Choir, Faleula E!
is a Samoan chant which had its origins in the early stages of the Mau movement,
a nonviolent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule during
village of Faleula is about twenty miles from Apia, the capital of Western Samoa.
Superimposed upon this rallying cry are words from the well known Samoan hymn
“Le Malo E Ola Ai” (“The Living Kingdom”).
People of Faleula, gather round!
Let’s all go and hear the words of the government,
Which have been the source of continuing debate.
Old beliefs have no value,
We must discard them now.
Hold fast to the kingdom of goodness,
The kingdom of peace,
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