The Christmas cantata boy Peter Jorge de Palma The movement in the city, that Christmas Eve was not normal. - You go to the farm? - Asked the young to leave a diner. - I go - said the colleague. - I also go - said the first. In Across town, the priest had just
make a conclusion and left the Church, when someone asked him: - Mr. go to the farm? - I'm going there now .... Among Protestants, the pastor commented: - I can not let go ... In Vila Maria, conductor Silveira received Joaquim phone call: - We go to the farm? - Yes, we all get together, in the bus. In many other places people They commented on the same subject. And the movement of vehicles towards Helena farm eventually making it much more intense than in previous years. The whole story began, when, one day before Christmas, Diogo Peixoto, the rich farmer, owner of Finance Helena, where
many residents of the municipality worked, was walking in a city next, with Mariana wife and son Peter, of five years. For one of these coincidences of life, it ended up, at the right time in the right place and along with his family, he attended a cantata Christmas. Boy Peter was impressed. He wondered because that song, all he asked about the baby Jesus and liked both of Christmas carols that asked his father to the There take the next day. -is Not so, my son, this is something so special that only happens once a year, at Christmas, when we celebrate the birth of baby Jesus.
The boy Peter understood, but when returned to the farm, he spoke only on cantata Christmas. He commented to the staff farm with children of employees, employees of the house. Then he asked his father, why do not we do a cantata here on the farm, for all to hear what We heard? The farmer smiled. He loved his son and up found the idea so pure and so much beauty, who embraced him. But had to explain that certain things are not done from one day to the another. You have to hire a choir, or prepare one hit with a conductor. The singers need to rehearse. Anyway, it takes a certain time. But boy Peter replied: -Then we do in the next Christmas!
The father agreed. After all, I had a year by front and both service administration the farm, let the matter rest. Boy Peter not forgotten. At the mid-year, heard songs Christmas CDs that He found at home. And he demanded his father's promise. Peixoto decided to go to the city and He spoke with some friends. He explained the idea of the child and they indicated that he sought a young, Joaquim Silveira, who was studying music and preparava-to one day fulfill his dream of being conductor. The farmer met Silveira. Said he knew all corals had their full schedule, especially at the end of year and asked if he could form the
Coral of Finance Helena. Said his company would sponsor the choir and Silveira You should not worry about the costs. That's how a few months later was everything prepared for the First Cantata Christmas on the Farm Helena. Boy Peter that He attended school in the city, invited all your friends. In the farm, he was communicative, talked to he saw, from manager to the humblest employee and invite them to go to the headquarters, 24 December at 20hs. Mostpeople, answered their invitation. On the day of the event, Boy Peter was already six years. Excited thanked everyone for presence and almost wept with emotion, when the choir sang the first songs.
At the end he applauded too, embraced his father, She hugged her mother, embraced the conductor and He shook hands with singers. He was the owner, promoter of all that beautiful party. Then he was playing with the other children. By the middle of next year, Peixoto She began to plan a trip with family. Profit the December holidays to go to Miami. But found firm Boy Peter resistance. If we travel as is cantata Christmas?. Boy Peter was getting smarter and more beautiful. Blue eyes and pink skin as the mother. His hair was black and curly as the father. Was a extraordinary figure! His father loved him too much and I knew he did not promote that cantata for vanity. Want to
share your Christmas with others. Mariana, obviously he supported the child and thus trip was for another opportunity. The farm would continue to promote and achieve Christmas cantata. And so it happened in the years ahead. O meeting became a tradition, attracting people from across the region. There were several years where Christmas Eve was the date maximum on the farm. But now the unexpected happened. 12 years, boy Peter became ill.
The disease was severe. He suffered from leukemia. At first there were few symptoms. After the situation was getting worse and he went on skipping school. But the average for the months passed, increasingly weakened, he continued to charge the father, the realization of Cantata Christmas. The people of the region, as he knew it washe who asked the event, It was renamed as the celebration " Christmas Cantata boy Peter". When Peixoto went to boy Peter on whether to cancel the cantata that year, because he was toosick, the boy smiled and said. "If the
baby Jesus want me to play with him, I will. If I will not, I'll stay here and I sing. " The situation became so. As the father could argue? On 24 December, at 16 hours, according to his own design, boy Peter. He was playing with the baby Jesus. The news spread by word of mouth, by telephone, radio, on the internet, all over Region. General sadness. Boy Peter was gone and there would be no cantata. But not so the people stopped going to the farm. Everyone wanted pay a last tribute to the boy. By nightfall, they were car lights emerging from all sides of the farm. Classmates, seniors who enjoyed cantata, choir members, employees farm, friends and
family members farmer, curious. The boy's body, a small coffin was placed in a Ranch in front of the house, where all They could see it without mishap. The Silveira maestro was in a doubt cruel. I had even wanted to make the cantata in honor of the boy. But how could ask their friends sing "Silent Night" at a time like that? To 20h., There was a great silence because no one knew what to do, then all heard the low first and then more high, a Christmas music coming from inside the residence. Peixoto and Mariana, who has They had long cried for her son, They began to accompany the music.
O conductor gave the signal to his musicians and all began to sing. Thus, for almost two hours, the crowd sang around boy's body. When they had finished all the commotion, people They sought to understand what wasIt happened. Employees of the house told so that the initial music came from a recorder, which had recorded the cantata boy Peter the previous year. But vowed that no one He had pressed the play button. Another version, presented later, the most skeptics, is that boy Peter had left a schedule on your mobile calendar. In one night, on time, on Christmas Eve, as an alarm clock, the device performed the song choice: "Silent Night". He would not miss a
Christmas cantata which had been prepared with either affection throughout the year ...
Translated from the Portuguese made with Google
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