Tsolo La E-sa
(The Thunder Has Cleared)
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R39.00
ISMN
979-0-804001-98-3;979-0-804001-99-0
Catalogue No
JPM 050
Notation
Dual notation (staff & tonic solfa), Staff notation
Composer
Scoring
choir SA(A)T(T)B
Edition
Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition
Category
‘Tsolo La E-sa’, first published in 1939, is not just about the weather clearing up after rain, in a European sense, but about the aftermath of the terrific thunderstorms that come in Spring to Lesotho. They renew the earth so that crops, animals, and people, can survive. Thunder can also be a welcome sign that a drought is coming to an end. It is one of many songs Mohapeloa wrote about nature, and several that concern the impact of weather on Lesotho’s subsistence farming communities.