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justinmerritt fire sermon for choir & orchestra Fire Sermon (Adittapariyaya Sutta) Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is liberation. Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world. based on translations from the Pali Canon (Samyutta Nikaya XXXV.28) by Thanissaro Bhikkhu & Ñanamoli Thera The mind is aflame. Ideas are aflame. Consciousness is aflame. Intellect is aflame.
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justinmerrittfire sermon for choir & orchestra
Fire Sermon(Adittapariyaya Sutta)
The All is aflame. The eye is aflame. Forms are aflame.
Consciousness is aflame.
Aflame with what? Aflame with the fire of passion,
the fire of hate, the fire of delusion.
Aflame with birth, aging & death, with sorrows,
with lamentations, with pains, with griefs,
with despairs.
The ear is aflame. Sounds are aflame...The nose is aflame. Aromas are aflame...
The tongue is aflame. Flavors are aflame...The body is aflame. Touch is aflame...
The mind is aflame. Ideas are aflame.
Consciousness is aflame. Intellect is aflame.
Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is liberation.
Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.
based on translations from the Pali Canon (Samyutta Nikaya XXXV.28) by Thanissaro Bhikkhu & Ñanamoli Thera
NOTES ON THE PROGRAMThe Fire Sermon was the third of the three cardinal discourses of the Buddha. In the first two, the Buddha set out his basic teachings to a small group of fellow spiritual seekers. But the third was delivered to a crowd of 1000 fire-worshiping ascetics. In this sermon, the Buddha turns the image of fire into a metaphor for the suffering caused by craving and clinging. He exhorts the crowd to give up desire and to find the end of suffering through dispassion, to release the heart from greed, hatred, and delusion.
-notes by the composer
“… the highlight of
the year came Nov. 9
with Justin Merritt's
Five Preludes for
piano…” -Peter
Schimpf, Bloomington Independent
commissioned by
Christopher Aspassand the St. Olaf Chapel Choir
and Steven Amundsonand the St. Olaf Orchestra
In 2000 composer Justin Merritt (bn. 1975) was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP Foundation/Rudolph Nissim Award for Janus Mask. He is also the winner of a host of other awards including the 2008-09 Copland Award, the 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute Prize for River of Blood, and the 2006 Polyphonos Prize
He received his Bachelors from Trinity University and
his Masters and Doctorate from Indiana University. H e s t u d i e d composition with Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandström, C l a u d e B a k e r, Timothy Kramer, Don F r e u n d , a n d e l e c t ro n i c a n d computer music with Jeffrey Hass. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at St. Olaf College. He resides in Northfield, Minnesota with his wife Yuedong and their children Cullen Fang Ouxiang and Molly Fang Qinghe.
“Several times I wrote "Wow!" next to a work being played...”
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Pioneer Press
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Copyright 2007 © Justin Merritt (ASCAP)Published by JMKrause
All rights reserved
for Christopher Aspaas & the St. Olaf Chapel Choirand
Steven Amundson & the St. Olaf Orchestra
Fire Sermonfor choir & orchestra
Justin Merritt
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