The text exists merely to give form to the music and is meaningless, says Finnish composer Mõntyjõrvi, whose El Hambo in 1999 was an instant success with American high school choirs. In Pseudo-Yoik he...
El Hambo' is the second installment in a rather loosely-defined series called 'Justly Forgotten Peoples.' (The first installment being 'Pseudo-Yoik.') With a text that means nothing, other than the il...
Completion: Reinhold Becker (1842-1924), choral version: Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (*1963).
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