Carlos Mejía Godoy

Carlos Mejía Godoy (b. 1938) was born in 1938 in Ocatal, Nicaragua, into a family that for generations has figured strongly in the cultural and intellectual life of the country. He wrote the song Cristo de Palacagüina in the last, oppressive years of the Somoza dynasty, at a time when the entire country was rising up to throw off the shackles of more than fifty years of a dictatorship. Two years later, the people of Nicaragua did triumph; but the song sings of a yet deeper triumph: Christ is born within us and around us when we join in the cosmic struggle to build a new world—one of justice, one of peace, one of love. But first, justice, without which neither peace nor love are possible.

Vocal Works Performed by the San Francisco Bach Choir

Cristo de Palacagüina