GLYN LEHMANN
COMPOSER • SONGWRITER • ARRANGER • ORCHESTRATOR
The Silent Call of Kati Thanda
SSAA and SA
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in South Australia is usually a dry salt pan, but whenever the floodwaters arrive hundreds-of-thousands of birds come from all over Australia (and beyond) to feed and breed. No-one knows how the birds know that the lake has filled. This song imagines the lake sending out a call to the birds that only they can hear.
For the correct pronunciation of Kati Thanda please listen to this audio.
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in South Australia is usually a dry salt pan, but whenever the floodwaters arrive hundreds-of-thousands of birds come from all over Australia (and beyond) to feed and breed. No-one knows how the birds know that the lake has filled. This song imagines the lake sending out a call to the birds that only they can hear.
For the correct pronunciation of Kati Thanda please listen to this audio.
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Full score and parts for orchestra. Arranged to accompany the choir.
Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 alto saxes, 2 trumpets, trombone, drum kit, 3 percussion, timpani, vibraphone, piano, electric guitar, electric bass, synth, violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello, bass
Full score and parts for orchestra. Arranged to accompany the choir.
Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 alto saxes, 2 trumpets, trombone, drum kit, 3 percussion, timpani, vibraphone, piano, electric guitar, electric bass, synth, violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello, bass
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Full score and parts
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SSAA (begins at 4:42, ends at 8:52)
The Silent Call of Kati Thanda
Ss…salt-crusted and baked under burning blue sky
I lay in wait barren and dry
Heat haze shimmering, bending the light
Just a mirage, no water in sight
Hundreds of miles away torrential rains
Begin their long journey through dry, dusty veins
Coursing towards their destiny's goal
To fill me with life, to make me whole
And so I send a silent call into the air
Kati Thanda
Can you hear my song?
Kati Thanda
Can you hear my call?
Kati Thanda
Can you hear my song?
Kati Thanda
Come to me, I will provide
All you need to flourish and to thrive
Come to me
Come fill me now with life
Kati Thanda
And thousands upon thousands take to the sky
From far distant places over dry land they fly
Drawn by ancient instincts they answer the call
A mystery of nature, the wonder of it all
© 2019 Glyn Lehmann. All rights reserved
Ss…salt-crusted and baked under burning blue sky
I lay in wait barren and dry
Heat haze shimmering, bending the light
Just a mirage, no water in sight
Hundreds of miles away torrential rains
Begin their long journey through dry, dusty veins
Coursing towards their destiny's goal
To fill me with life, to make me whole
And so I send a silent call into the air
Kati Thanda
Can you hear my song?
Kati Thanda
Can you hear my call?
Kati Thanda
Can you hear my song?
Kati Thanda
Come to me, I will provide
All you need to flourish and to thrive
Come to me
Come fill me now with life
Kati Thanda
And thousands upon thousands take to the sky
From far distant places over dry land they fly
Drawn by ancient instincts they answer the call
A mystery of nature, the wonder of it all
© 2019 Glyn Lehmann. All rights reserved
PO BOX 412
Bridgewater
South Australia 5155
Australia
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