{"id":39528,"date":"2019-06-28T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.laulupidu.ee\/?p=39528"},"modified":"2019-07-01T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T10:35:05","slug":"the-choir-from-farthest-away-a-foreign-estonian-helps-us-learn-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2019.laulupidu.ee\/en\/read-more\/the-choir-from-farthest-away-a-foreign-estonian-helps-us-learn-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"The choir from farthest away: an American Estonian helps us learn lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>For years the Song Celebration hasn\u2019t been just the Estonians\u2019 playground. Already for several years there have been foreigners singing in our melodic language, who might not even fully understand the words they are singing.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>At this year&#8217;s celebration there are foreign choirs coming from all over the world. Singers are coming from Finland, Germany, Norway, and even from farther places like the United States of America and Japan. The most exotic choir the Wakayama children\u2019s choir from Japan. It is a choir of 47 singers, who perform every year in the USA and Europe. Even though the choir is singing in Estonian at the Song Celebration, they also love to sing in English and have won many international choir competitions in Germany, Hungary and Austria.<\/p>\n<p>The choir traveling the longest distance is California-based Piedmont children\u2019s choir. The Piedmont choir\u2019s founder Susan Rahl told Postimees, that her children are participating in the Song Celebration for the fourth time and have a big interest in the event. This time they have learnt 14 Estonian songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abSince Estonian isn\u2019t our mother tongue, the hardest part has been learning the lyrics and correct pronunciation for all 14 songs,\u00bb she explained. Rahl said, that the song \u00ab\u00dcksi pole keegi\u00bb has a lot of words, which is why that song has been the hardest for the children. Piedmont children\u2019s choir\u2019s favourite song is T\u00f5nis M\u00e4gi\u2019s piece \u00abIlus oled, isamaa\u00bb. Despite the difficulty of learning the songs, the children and choir conductors don\u2019t have to figure out the pronunciation by themselves. Rahl said, that already for 15 years Saima Kint, an Estonian living in Oakland California, has been helping them with Estonian. She has been living in the USA since the Second World War, when she was forced to leave her home country. Rahl explained the reason that keeps on bringing them back to the Song Celebration: \u00abThe Estonian people\u2019s story is an inspiring reminder of what humans are capable of\u00bb. 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