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Song of Sky and Sea: A Song of Realization (SATB full cycle)
Beginning at the moment of death, slowly becoming of like mind and form with the Divine, ultimately becoming one with Love.
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At Every Instant
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The Infinite Dwelling
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Two Falling Stars
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As One Sky
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Song of Sky and Sea: A Song of Realization
SATB a cappella
1. At Every Instant
2. The Infinite Dwelling
3. Two Falling Stars
4. As One Sky
Paul John Rudoi’s award-winning cycle “SONG OF SKY AND SEA: A Song of Realization” for men’s choir is a dynamic narrative based on translations of Hafiz, Kabir, and Rumi. Beginning at the moment of death, moving toward and slowly becoming of like mind and form with the Divine, ultimately becoming one with Love, this cycle is a journey and result unlike any other.
Composer’s Notes
The harmonies, melodies, and rhythms in this cycle are all connected, so though it may seem daunting at first, give it some time and it will start to sound familiar! There is video art that was created to accompany the full cycle, by artist Lynn Lukkas. For more information on this performance version, please contact me at paul@pauljohnrudoi.com.
– Paul John Rudoi
Text
I. At every instant – Rumi
At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country.
We are higher than heaven, more noble than the angels:
Why not go beyond them? Our goal is the Supreme Majesty.
What has the fine pearl to do with the world of dust?
Why have you come down here? Take your baggage back.
What is this place? Luck is with us, to us is the sacrifice!
Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean –
the ocean of the soul. Like the birds of the sea,
men come from the ocean – the ocean of the soul.
How could this bird, born of that sea, make his dwelling here?
No, we are the pearls from the bosom of the sea, it is
there that we dwell: Otherwise how could the wave
succeed to the wave that comes from the soul?
II. The infinite dwelling – Kabir
The infinite dwelling of the Infinite Being is
everywhere: in earth, water, sky, and air.
III. Two falling stars – Hafiz
Let us be like
Two falling stars in the day sky.
Let no one know of our sublime beauty As we hold hands with God
And burn
Into a sacred existence that defies – That surpasses
Every description of ecstasy
And love.
IV. The inward and the outward – Kabir
Oh my heart! Wake, oh wake!
The moon is within me, and so is the sun. The inward
and the outward are become as one sky, the Infinite
and the finite are united. The hills and the sea and the earth.
The days and the nights.
The rising and the set-ting of the sun.
The oceans and the unnumbered stars.
The limit and the limitless.
The body and the mind.
The beginning, the middle, and the end.
The conscious and the unconscious.
Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious,
there has the mind made a swing:
Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing
never ceases its sway. Millions of beings are
there: The sun and the moon in their courses are there.
Millions of ages pass, and the swing goes on.
All swing! The sky and the earth and the air and the water.
O brother! He who has seen that radiance of love, he is
saved: There the sky is filled with music.
Day and night, the chorus of music fills the heavens:
The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines
bright. The melody of love swells forth.
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