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Paul John Rudoi
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Comet
Takes the audience on a journey of galactic proportions, painting the picture of a comet swirling and dancing past planets and the sun, only to be thrown out into the vastness of space.
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Spheres of Influence
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You Carry Oceans Within
SATB a cappella
Comet, the first in Paul John Rudoi’s award-winning choral set “Spheres of Influence”, takes the audience on a journey of galactic proportions, painting the picture of a comet swirling and dancing past planets and the sun, only to be thrown out into the vastness of space. A worthy investment for both the advanced collegiate ensemble and audiences alike!
Composer’s Notes
Don’t get too bogged down in the diction, as the repetition of the figure is what matters more. Think vocal orchestration.
Also, enjoy the expansive nature starting in m39. You’re aiming for the feeling of large amounts of space and time!
– Paul John Rudoi
Text
The comet dances with the sun. It’s orbit’s curled
In conic sections in our heads. It beguiles
Ten billion eyes fanned across a peacock world
When it fans its tail across ten million miles,
Then, perihelion past, bends to its out-bound pace
Beyond the Dame of Love, the Lord of War
And paradise to let towards open space––
The earth gone now and sun shrunk to star.
There titanic galaxies redden and recede
Like trans-cosmic steamers plunging into night,
And a comet’s a raft on the Sea of Naught
Where “Let there be light!” seems to have gone unsaid,
And God’s forgot his great decree
That Being is but Nothing cannot be.
– Jim Togeas
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