Mariya Angelova, Asya Pincheva, and Vanya Dimitrova (Bulgarian Voices)

We are very pleased to welcome back singers Mariya Angelova (former Dimitrova), Asya Pincheva, and Vanya Dimitrova for our first virtual concert for this academic year (2021-2022). Programme: 0:18 Женала е дюлбер Яна (Zhenala e dyulber Yana) - The beautiful Yana has been harvesting. A folk song from the Thracian region (Southeast Bulgaria). Traditionally, this song was performed by a woman during the time when wheat harvest was collected from the fields. To appreciate its beauty one should imagine it sung under the scourging summer heat in the open space of a flat plane echoed by the distant hills. The use of the word ‘dyulber’ (in other songs gyulber) places its appearance in the Ottoman period. In the song a lovely maiden Yana is presenting harvesting at two roads and three highways, which suggests a liminal, transitory status of the young maiden into the womanhood: A passer-by asks her whether she has no brother to help her in harvesting, to which she suggestively responds that she has brothers, bu