Video Information

• Choir: Washington and Lee University Singers
• Piece: Galaxias
• Composer:  Santiago Veros
• Arranger:  Santiago Veros
• Conductor:  Santiago Veros
• Voices:  SATB+Piano and crystal glasses
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• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary
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  Music and Lyrics by Santiago Veros
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  Music and Lyrics by Santiago Veros
  https://www.santiagoveros.site
  
  Washington and Lee University Singers is a choir conducted by Shane Lynch. This version belongs to a general rehearsal during Santiago Veros' visit to Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA) in November 2021.
  
  Galaxias is a piece commissioned by
  The Cantabile Singers - Chris Bowman, conductor
  Kings Chorale - Bill Perrot, conductor
  
  Dedicated with a deep feeling to Bill Perrot, Chris Bowman,
  Christine Crofut Carpenter, Elaine Farrar Kondrat,
  Howard Dawson, Joy Hewitt and Marti Dawson
  
  Galaxias
  
  We are all stars, we are to illuminate and be illuminated by those around us. This piece will always remain in my heart because it has been the result of the commission of very luminous people who have given me warmth while I was recovering from a hard setback of health.
  This work is the adventure of mutual support. We are lighting our way but the neighboring stars -those people who are our loved ones on any plane of existence- create and guide that way with more light than we are capable of perceiving.
  
  Lyrics
  
  And the shadow of twilight fades
  when the light of the ancestors
  forms a mantle that protects and guides us.
  
  A being illuminating the galaxies
  The certainty on the shipwrecked path
  The glint of existence, time and distance.
  
  The ancient aurora of golden light
  at the awakening of the dawn
  the eyes radiant with certainties
  condensed into rays of light.
  
  The eternal radiance of the soul:
  an instant of infinite distances
  and the birth of a million dawns.  less