I was managing this work for a few months and finally, it came to light.
Perhaps it is my most important work. Not for music, orchestration, or technique, but for a single reason: THE MESSAGE.
I believe that there is nothing that sums up Jesus’ moral code better. Each verse carries a lesson for a lifetime!
And it is certainly a great challenge, for our change of behavior, of mentality, in the face of life. Who can respond with Love when they receive only hate?
Who can really forgive when he is offended?
Who is willing to understand more than to be understood?
“For it is in giving that one receives” … when humanity understands that everything we do comes back to us, it will no longer do evil …
“It is dying that one lives” … this is the great challenge: the death of our SELFISH.
Easy to speak; difficult to do.
But certainly possible!

My aunt, Odete Dehn, a great artist, an actress from the old TV Tupi (Brazil), successful singer, dancer, painter, among many other virtues, was responsible for starting me in my musical career.
At just 15 years of age, in 1957, she composed a song talking about the pain of retreatants from the north and northeast from Brazil, who ventured out of drought and hunger, seeking a better life in big cities, and then fell into great disappointment in reality of the metropolises.
The beautiful lyrics were written by her mother (my late grandmother), Virginia Colla.
A few years ago I had the pleasure of orchestrating this song and now I had the honor of recording the song with the great counter-tenor Renato Costa.
The result is in this video that seeks to bring this story to life, which is still a reality in Brazil today.

New video for a 1999 work: