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Limits of Your Longing Composer | Alex Berko (http://www.alexberko.com) Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke Choir | Coro Mundi Conductor | Stephen Kushner Audio | Paul Vazquez Commissioned by Coro Mundi First performance on October 13, 2024 at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Philadelphia, PA Text: God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand. -Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours, I 59 Program Note: In early 2024, I was approached by Stephen Kushner, music director of the Philadelphia-based choir, Coro Mundi. He asked if I would be willing to create a new work in honor of a dear friend, Thomas who had passed away the previous summer. In learning about Thomas, I came to understand that he was a deeply spiritual person who devoted his life to the well-being and healing of others. We decided on a beautiful and meditative text by Rilke, one that reflected the spirit of Thomas and a poem that I had my eye on for some time. The poetry is comforting and introspective; each stanza acting almost like a small mantra. The work also includes piano and a cello which I imagined to be the spiritual force that lives within the seams of the music. I consider it a great responsibility to create a work that embodies the spirit of an individual and would like to thank Stephen for trusting me to do so. We each have loved ones who used to be in our lives, now living in our memory and through what they’ve left behind. It’s in the revisitation of their memory that we get to be with them again, if only for a moment.