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Vox in Krishna:

(Performed by Yale Voxtet, guest conducted by Gabriel Crouch).

Star of Rohini:

(Performed by University of Oxford – Somerville College. Conductor: Will Dawes. Album: The Dawn of Grace: Music for Christmas ℗ 2022 Resonus Limited).

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Shruthi Rajasekar
Composer and performer Shruthi Rajasekar is a McKnight Composer Fellow with the American Composers Forum, Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Associate of the Royal Northern College of Music (ARNCM), winner of the Global Women in Music Award from the United Nations, and recipient of the Marshall Scholarship from the Government of the United Kingdom. Shruthi’s music...
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Feasts of Christmas

Shruthi Rajasekar

This interfaith collection of Christmas music explores the spiritual awe and stories of human connection that lie at the heart of religious mythology.

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SATB div. a cappella

Shruthi Rajasekar’s Feasts of Christmas collection highlights the fascinating parallels between the religious stories of Jesus and Krishna. Vox in Krishna centers the grief of mothers who’ve lost their children (Feast of Holy Innocents) and Star of Rohini explores the wonder and mystery surrounding the birth stars of the two mythic figures (Epiphany).

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Vox in Krishna
Holy Innocents

A voice is heard weeping
Rachel, Devaki’s children
They are no more

Herod, Kamsa
Killed the children

But Rachel, Devaki:
Know that
Kamsa will be no more
He will be no more

– Adapted from Matthew 2:18 and the Bhagavata Purana, Canto 10

Star of Rohini
Epiphany

They saw the star of
Rohini ascending
Vidimus stellam in oriens
et venimus adorare

We were stargazing
Gazing at stars
Ecce stella quam
viderant in oriente

gavisi sunt
gaudio magno valde

They rejoiced for the star was there
With tears of joy, they cried,
“Behold the star!”

The answers –
They lie in oriente

– Adapted from Matthew 2:2, 2:9-10, and the Bhagavata Purana, Canto 10 with additions from the composer

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