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The Millennium Song is a song to announce the dawn of the third millenium and is released by Michael Greenacre.
 The Millennium Song is an arrangement of Frederic Chopin's Prelude op. 28 no. 20 in C minor, with original, idealistic lyrics that speak of the coming of a new era, and which implores humanity to forget and forgive the past. It is a monumental song for a monumental period in the time we are living.
The musical idea was to incorporate four different musical styles in one song: classical music, rock music, jazz and, finally, a modern techno rhythm. The challenge was to pass from the classical original to techno in three minutes! But the most innovative aspect of the idea was to release The Millennium Song simultaneously in several languages. The lyrics were written in English, and then friends from other regions of Spain and then other parts of the world were asked to make various translations and adaptations of the words. All four principal languages of Spain have been recorded: Catalan, Castillian (Spanish), Basque and Gallician as well as Norwegian. All these versions as well as the original English version and an Occitan version (the language of southern France) are available at Global Song in MP3 format for downloading. Michael Greenacre lives in Catalonia, Spain. Interestingly, Chopin composed many of these preludes during his stay in Mallorca. |
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