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Star of Rohini (from Feasts of Christmas)
Epiphany gets a new look with Star of Rohini, Shruthi Rajasekar’s cosmic interfaith piece on the birth stars of Jesus and Krishna.
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Feasts of Christmas
SATB div. a cappella
“Star of Rohini… is a model to composers of Christmas music,” says The Arts Desk in their Classical Reviews. This interfaith work about wonder by composer Shruthi Rajasekar explores the dual importance of birth stars in Christian and Hindu mythologies. Like Jesus and the Star of Bethlehem, Krishna was born under the nakshatra of Rohini – a star that had a powerful guiding influence in His life.
Composer’s Notes
In Star of Rohini, written for the Christian Feast of Epiphany and embracing its sense of wonder, awe, and mystery, the star of Bethlehem is reimagined as Rohini, Krishna’s nakshatra (birth star) and guiding influence. Matthew 2:2 from the Bible says, “Vidimus enim stellam ejus in oriente” — “For we have seen His star in the East.” Who is to say that this wasn’t Krishna’s star of Rohini?
– Shruthi Rajasekar
Text
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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