DESCRIPTION:
OF BEAUTY
Music by Richard Robert Rossi (my brother)
Text by Delores Dufner, OSB
Performed with a 90 piece orchestra(Eastern Symphony Orchestra) and 150 singers

Of Beauty, embraces each art form: poets, dancers, musicians & artists. "Beauty" itself, metaphorically represents God the Creator of all that is beautiful.

Of Beauty we were poets born
with ears attuned to image found
in metaphor, in word and sound.
For Beauty actors' skills are honed
in dialogue and turn of phrase,
in fluent speech and silent gaze.

Of Beauty we were dancers born
with bodies built to leap and spin
and move to rhythms felt within.
For Beauty is our passion spent
in patterned step, in space and time,
in pirouette and stance sublime.

Of Beauty we, musicians born,
will leave no song unplayed, unsung
by pipe and string, by breath and tongue.
To Beauty we are freely drawn,
enthralled by mellow, silvery horn,
undone by alto's velvet tone.

Of Beauty we were artists born
with eyes that seek her shining light,
beguiled and spellbound at the sight.
By Beauty have our hearts been won,
awakened, stirred by bold design,
by vibrant color, form and line.

By Beauty we are spirit-borne,
transported high on splendid wing
to where the purest angels sing.
In Beauty will we make our home,
enchanted by her glance and grace,
delighting in her dazzling face.

Of Beauty's longing we were born.
In Beauty's loveliness alone—
in Beauty have we found a home.
Amen, alleluia!

See Richard's Bio and how to order some of his other published pieces at: http://eiu.edu/music/personnel.php?id=rrrossi