Written: 2017
Duration: ca. 4'
Instrumentation: soprano and piano
Text by Olavo Bilac
Sung in Portuguese
Ouvir Estrelas ("Listen To Stars") is a setting of a poem by Olavo Bilac, a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the “Parnassian Triad”, an acclaimed trio of Brazilian poets.
Ouvir Estrelas was commissioned by George Dennis O’Brien and is dedicated to Bernardo Andrade and His Family, in Loving Memory of Their Father, José Luís Andrade (1959-2017).