Folksong arr. Tetiana Yashvili (Тетяна Яшвілі) and Mantawoman - The Dream Passes By The Window

Traditional Ukrainian folk song, ‘Ой ходить сон коло вікон’ / 'The Dream Passes By The Window’ arr. Tetiana Yashvili (Тетяна Яшвілі) and Mantawoman as Bomb Shelter Lullaby (2022) Inna Husieva (Інна Гусєва) - Soprano Mantawoman - Yangqin Satoshi Kubo - Piano Mask by Damselfrau Picture-in-picture filming by Ted Evans Performed as part of Tangram's production 'Our Silence Is Your Silence' at LSO St Luke's on 29th August 2022 Fleeing from rocket fire in the suburbs of Kyiv, where I live, my daughter and I ran to the basement of our house. It was about midnight and among the people there were several young mothers with small children who were dragged out of a warm bed, they were crying. The adults were crying too. Sobs of helplessness, frozen silent fear, explosions outside, all this was drowned in the gentle sounds of motherly voices lulling their babies. This music changed me forever. The song that will be played now is dedicated to the courage of Ukrainian mothers. My own mother miraculously escaped from the zone of active hostilities in the city of Severodonetsk, where I come from. This is Eastern Ukraine and at the time of the start of a full-scale war, my mother was there, without telephone communication, without electricity and water, without glass in the windows, on the street -13 ° C. Having lost everything, we gained FREEDOM. Notes by Tetyana Yashvili Ой ходить Сон коло вікон, А Дрімота коло плота. Питається Сон Дрімоти: А де будем ночувати? Де хатонька теплесенька, Де дитина малесенька, Там ми будем ночувати, Дитиночку колисати.. The Dream passes by the window, And Sleep by the fence. The Dream asks Sleep: Where shall we spend the night? Where the cottage is warm, Where the baby is tiny, There we will go, And rock the child to sleep.