Everything Everlasting

I first listened to the An Experience of Being CD when pupils where running around me, telling me to switch it off because it was too sad.

So I started singing to them about happiness and Hope street. The pupils loved it, learned the song and sang it at their parents’ house, who were also happy about it.

But I took the CD home and listened to it. And I very much liked it. The way the songs connect with the poems it’s really extraordinary. You can listen below the wonderful voice of the actress Leopoldina Bălănuță and the singer Narcisa Suciu. And I do have to warn you, it will touch you to the very core.

Leopoldina Bălănuță - unfortunately, none of the poems on the album can be found on the internet. One of my favorites is the Poem of the Woman Who Loved Spring by Magda Isanos. Below, you can see Leopoldina Bălănuță reciting one of Lucian Blaga's poems called Silence:

Narcisa Suciu – You could have been