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Descriptions

 "Resurgemus! This work was composed for brass ensemble and narrator. It was written influenced by the pandemic phase that the world is going through and inspired by José Jorge Letria's poem "Life triumphs." As a common point, the two portraits suggest the belief in better days. 

 This work is less related to misfortune, but rather to resurgence and hope, after all, paying tribute to all the communities that came together in this phase. The parallelism between sounds and words can be heard in this work. In the beginning, it is possible to feel the “heavy” musical environment, through the dissonant harmonies, the use of the increased 4th interval, and the existing association with the absence, the silence, the pain, and the awe present in the poem. It is also used during much of the composition, the hymn Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) composed in the 13th century. The theme of the hymn is the doomsday when Christ “will come to judge the living and the dead”. 

 In the end, the music together with the poem finds people's hearts, demonstrating the path of hope and conveying the sense that there will be tomorrow. The sun will rise, and as Letria says "Because this is the colorful dream that illuminates a boy's laughter".