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Paul John Rudoi
Paul John Rudoi is an award-winning musician, entrepreneur, and advocate for arts access. As a professional tenor vocalist, Paul has performed and recorded a wide range of music in professional ensembles nationwide including Seraphic Fire, The Santa Fe Desert Chorale, True Concord, the Oregon Bach Festival, and most notably as a member of the full-time...
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It Will Be the Past
Simple and poignant, with a nod to a more hopeful future.
Difficulty: 2
PJR-070B
SATB Choir, a cappella
Simple and poignant, It Will Be the Past was written as a response to the difficulties and isolation of Covid-19, with a nod to a more hopeful future.
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It will be the past
and we’ll live there together.
Not as it was to live
But as it is remembered.
It will be the past.
We’ll all go back together.
Everyone we ever loved,
and lost, and must remember.
It will be the past.
And it will last forever.
– From Boy © 2008 by Patrick Phillips. Reprinted with permission by University of Georgia Press.
Mary Temple, West Wall, East Light, Morning, 2011, NYCT Neck Road.
Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.
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