What You Seek: A Song Cycle based on 3 Rumi Texts
Автор: Brian Mark
Загружено: 2024-01-03
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What you Seek: A Song Cycle based on 3 Rumi Texts was written in partnership with Rose Hegele and Keri Lee Pierson, two soprano vocalists who I have collaborated on previous projects. The song cycle is based on 3 texts from Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, a Sufi mystic and a famous poet from the 13th century who was considered to have an enormous influence on readers and religious scholars throughout history: What you Seek is Seeking You, One Song and Why Cling. Rose and Keri Lee and I had discussed this project for two years, as I was instantly drawn to this short quote of the first movement, due to its simplicity yet deeply profound spiritual message.
We decided to build upon What you Seek with two other poems that would complete a balanced song cycle with concepts pertaining to openness, exploration, meditation, discovery, conflict, and resolution. What you Seek: A Song Cycle is written for two soprano vocalists, singing bowls, delay pedal and multi-effects processing, and was premiered at the 44th Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival on October 21, 2023, performed by Keri Lee Pierson and Carolyn Ashley Anderson.
What you Seek was professionally recorded by Rose Hegele and Keri Lee Pierson in late November/early December of 2023, and was released to the general public on December 25, 2023.
Movement I: What you Seek is Seeking You
What you Seek is Seeking You
Movement II: One Song
Every war and every conflict
between human beings has happened
because of some disagreement about names.
It is such an unnecessary foolishness,
because just beyond the arguing
there is a long table of companionship
set and waiting for us to sit down.
What is praised is one, so the praise is one
too, many jugs being poured into a huge basin.
All religions, all this singing, one song.
The differences are just illusion and vanity.
Sunlight looks a little different
on this wall than it does on that wall
and a lot different on this other one,
but it is still the same light.
We have borrowed these clothes,
these time-and-space personalities,
from a light, and when we praise,
we are pouring them back in.
Translated by Coleman Barks in his book, ‘The Illuminated Prayer’.
Movement III: Why Cling
Why cling to one life
till it is soiled and ragged?
The sun dies and dies
squandering a hundred lives
every instant.
God has decreed life for you
and He will give another
and another and another
Translated by Coleman Barks in his book, ‘The Illuminated Prayer’.
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