The Beauty of Cosmic Things

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Duration: 5'30''

Voicing/Instrumentation: Mix Choir and Soli

Available Versions: Mix

Language: English

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Program Notes: When reading poetry to set to music, I tend to look for poems about nature, religion, or love. Having the task to set Alan Seeger’s excerpt of The Host for the Stephen Paulus Emerging Composer Competition was a journey. This piece represents the strenght of men in war but also their dreams, fragility, and hopes. Even though I have included lots of articulation in the score, please, do not let them get in the way of your own reading and interpretation of the performance.

Author: Alan Seeger

Text: In their new dedication charged
With something heightened, enriched, enlarged,
That lends a light to their lusty brows
And a song to the rhythm of their trampling feet,
These are the men that have taken vows,
These are the hardy, the flower, the élite,—
These are the men that are moved no more
By the will to traffic and grasp and store
And ring with pleasure and wealth and love
The circles that self is the centre of;
But they are moved by the powers that force
The sea for ever to ebb and rise,
That hold Arcturus in his course,
And marshal at noon in tropic skies
The clouds that tower on some snow-capped chair
And drift out over the peopled plain.
They are big with the beauty of cosmic things.

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Year of Composition: 5'30''

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