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by Mia Makaroff (b. 1970)

Bella Voce
The College of St. Scholastica
Dr. Bret Amundson, director

Performed at the 2020 Central/North Central American Choral Directors Association Regional Conference in Milwaukee, WI
March 6, 2020

Program cover artwork by Sarah M. Brokke

Who is like the wise?
Who knows the explanation of things?
A person’s wisdom brightens their face
and changes its hard appearance.
As no one has power over the wind to contain it,
so no one has power over the time of their death.
-- Ecclesiastes 8:1, 8

I belong to the wind – but I live – And this seems to be the intention of life – Today I live – here and now – and if that is too much I won’t be alive tomorrow – That is the way and so what?
-- Nils Aslak Valkeapää (1943-2001)