Leap Free of the Cage, Connor J. Koppin | Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc.

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Leap Free of the Cage [level: Medium]
Connor J. Koppin: Bio and other works | Joseph Ohrt Choral Series

voicing: SATB | catalog number: SBMP 1474 | price: $2.20
accompaniment: a cappella

The text by Rumi offers a profound metaphor for living. The composer illuminates this with the music taking flight as it leaps freely. A colorful, exciting piece is the result.

Central Bucks High School-West Chamber Choir - Joseph Ohrt - conductor [© all rights reserved]

CLICK HERE: See and Hear the Complete Score or download a perusal copy: HERE

CLICK HERE: Read the Text or Poem

Fly away bird!
Whispers, “Rise up.”
Come away bird!
How could the sufi not dance,
turning himself like the atom in the sun of eternity
So he can leap free of this dying world?

Fly away to your home,
You have leaped free of the cage,
you are flung back to the wind of God!

Jal?l ad-D?n Muhammad R?mi
1207-1273

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Featured on the following reading sessions
2018 | Dorian Vocal Festival - Luther College, Decorah, IA - 1/15
2018 | Oregon ACDA June 24-25 2018, Marylhurst University
2018 | NJMEA2018, Aug 7, 2018, Joe Cantaffa, Gunther Kahlil
2018 | VT ACDA Reading Session 10/5/18