Temo Ea Lifate

(Planting Trees)

R39.00

ISMN
979-0-804003-10-9;979-0-804003-11-6
Catalogue No
JPM 106
Notation
Dual notation (staff & tonic solfa), Staff notation
Scoring
choir SATB
Edition
Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition
Category

Mohapeloa completed ‘Temo ea Lifate’ in 1976, publishing it in Cape Town in 1976 as song No. 1 of 25 in Meluluetsa ea Ntšetso-pele le Bosechaba Lesotho (Anthems for the Development of the Lesotho Nation). In his ‘Dedication’ at the front of Meluluetsa – ‘To the young generation of the Basotho’ – Mohapeloa refers to soil erosion, a major problem in Lesotho’s agricultural life, that could be solved by planting trees. He himself is remembered as a great planter of trees in Molumong and Mahalinyane when he was a young man.