Video Information

• Choir: The Girl Choir of South Florida
• Piece: Song to the Moon (La Luna)
• Composer:  Z. Randall Stroope
• Conductor:  Wallis Peterson
• Voices:  SSAA
• Genres: Classical
• "Song to the Moon (La Luna)" by Z. Randall Stroope. Based upon an aria from the opera "Rusalka" by Antonín Dvořák.
  
  Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdal...  more"Song to the Moon (La Luna)" by Z. Randall Stroope. Based upon an aria from the opera "Rusalka" by Antonín Dvořák.
  
  Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 18, 2012. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese, Oboist: Lisa Gelfand, Flutist: Emma Mellinger.
  
  In this song, a water nymph has fallen in love with a human prince and beckons the moon to find him and tell of her longing for him.
  
  Text:
  
  La Luna, La Luna,
  Your light sees through endless time,
  Tell, o tell me where my love lies.
  O moon e'er you pass,
  Wake my dreaming lover,
  I am waiting, I am calling,
  Tell him, light his place.
  Ah, moon, help him remember
  And dream of me,
  Tell him, O tell him,
  Who is waiting, who is longing!
  I am waiting, longing! Longing!
  Tell him come, tell him, O moon.
  Help to remember our laughter and tears,
  Mem'ries of summer nights.
  Help him remember our triumphs and fears,
  May this remembrance waken him!
  Tell that I am holding firm for at least a while.
  Tell him, moon. Moon, O moon don't disappear,
  O moon, silver moon, in the deep dark sky,
  Your light sees through endless time.
  Tell, O tell me where my love lies.  less