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Who Has Seen the Wind?
Shruthi Rajasekar’s setting of Who Has Seen the Wind? explores the deep spirituality that grounds Christina Rossetti’s text.
SATB div. a cappella choir
Inspired by an Indian raga motif that came to the composer in a dream, this setting of Who Has Seen the Wind? explores the deep spirituality that grounds Christina Rossetti’s text. Through musical layers, the piece builds a whirlwind of colors – like leaves of autumn spinning in a gust of wind.
Composer’s Notes
Originally written in a collection of nursery rhymes, Christina Rossetti’s “Who has seen the wind?” is a simple but profound expression of spiritual acceptance. This setting explores the mystical nature of opening ourselves to the presence of forces beyond us. The central motif— a rising series of notes in the Carnatic raga Charukesi (here, with the tonic of F#: C# D E F# G# A# B C#)— came to me in a dream, and its role in the piece as a fragment that lingers before finally revealing itself mirrors the speaker’s path of recognizing, and embracing, the divine in our world.
– Shruthi Rajasekar
Text
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing thro’.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.
– Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book by Christina G. Rossetti, 1893
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