Gaudeo
(from Canticles of Time: Symphony No. 2)
Instrumentation: *3,*2,*2,*3/4,3,3,1/T,5P,Hp/Chor/Stgs
Duration: 11 mins.

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This Finale from Jones’ choral symphony can also stand alone as a concert piece of immense power and rejoicing. Spiraling out with successively larger dimensions until it reaches its final triumphant moment, the work takes the listener on a journey to the transcendent experience embodied by its title, Gaudeo (I rejoice!).

• “…a highly exuberant affair…builds to a busy, convuluted, joyous finale.” ---William Albright, Houston Post
• “We were standing, applauding and cheering. Rejoicing.” ---Danny McKenzie, Jackson Clarion-Ledger

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