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Paul John Rudoi
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i carry your heart with me (Rudoi)
Paints the text with both vast space and delicate moments of clarity.
SATB double choir, a cappella
Paul John Rudoi’s setting of ee cummings’ i carry your heart with me offers a harmonic world unlike any other. Painting the text with both vast space and delicate moments of clarity, this double choir work will leave your audiences speechless and your vocalists wanting more.
Composer’s Notes
Allow the interplay between the choirs and between the different sections to dictate the musical phrasing, but don’t linger too long so that it continues to flow. Also allow the different combinations of lyrics to influence the emotional gravity of each moment.
– Paul John Rudoi
Text
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
– E.E. Cummings
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