Maxim Shalygin “While combing your hair“

“While combing your hair“ for mixed choir, dedicated to Maria Kalesnikava. First performer: Netherlands Radio Choir, conductor Peter Dijkstra Premiere: October 8th 2021 in the AVROTROS Friday concert on NPO Radio 4 Commissioner: AVROTROS for the Netherlands Radio Choir Score: Donemus Publishing [] _______________________________________________________ “While combing your hair“ Wake up from your dream and look up straight to the sea. Would you be silent, if its color turned suddenly red? And from the emerald sky hundreds of various animals will start to fall down. Will you believe the rainbow’s still near, when at night the seagulls start screaming above all flooded market places, will you take the hairbrush and start combing your dazzlingly stunning white hair? The sound of the broken mirrors will freeze in the air: thousands of silent shards! And you will see lonely boats in quiet lakes with faces of fish: praying, trembling and crying in primeval fear. Let your hand shield your blue e