Iza Ngomso (Come Tomorrow) - Lyric Video - Christopher Tin - Cape Town Youth Choir

"Iza Ngomso" by the Cape Town Youth Choir
Composer: @Christopher Tin
Conductor: Leon Starker
Tenor solo: Jason Atherton
Strings: Elina Koytcheva, Louise Starker, Azra Isaacs, Pearl Jung
Djembe: Schalk Wasserman
Video production: Bungalow Four Productions
Sound editing: Marcelo Gándaras

Performed for the virtual graduation ceremony of the University of Cape Town, December 2020.
Recorded at the Hugo Lambrechts Music Auditorium. All Covid-19 regulations were followed during this production.

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"Iza Ngomso" is the fourth movement of The Drop That Contained the Sea, and like the rest of the movements, is based on water in one of its unique naturally occuring states. In the case of "Iza Ngomso", a piece about clouds, the text is derived from an unusual translation of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "Kerabos": translated into Xhosa, one of the national languages of South Africa (and one of the African dialects that features prominent 'click' sounds).

"I wrote Iza Ngomso on an airplane, en route from Dubai to Johannesburg. I was inspired by the sight of the airplane's shadow skipping across the cloud layer." - Christopher Tin

Lyrics and Translation:

Imvula izawubuya ezulwini
(The rain will return to the cloud)
Umphungu uphinde ube imvula namafu
(The clouds bring down the rain)
Ndizawuqabela
(I will climb )
Apho amatafa nentsimi eluhlaza
(Where over fields and pastures green )
Izikhephe ezizotyiweyo zibhabha emoyeni
(The painted ships float high in the air)

Njengentaka ndiyabhabha,
(Like a bird I fly)
Ndibamba umoya
(I’m holding on to the wind )
Njengentaka ndiyabhabha,
(Like a bird I fly )
Ndibambelele ngamaphiko
(I’m holding on by my wings)

Iza ngomso
(Come tomorrow)
Kuzawubalela
(The rain will clear)
Makube ngomso
(May it be tomorrow)

Iyeza imini
(The day is coming)
Ndibhabha, ndidada emhlabeni wonke,
(I fly, I swim all over the lands)
Ndibamba umoya
(I’m holding on to the wind)
Phezukwe santizasendle,
(Over desert sands,)
Phezukwamalwandle namachibi
(over gulf and bay Like a bird )

Njengentaka ndiyabhabha,
(I fly Like a bird)
Njengentaka ndiyacula
(I sing)

Iza ngomso
(Come tomorrow)
Lizaw'balela
(The rain will clear)
Makube ngomso
(May it be tomorrow)

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