Celestial Wind - by Robert Sirota (excerpt) by Robert Sirota published on 2014-05-11T16:34:01Z Celestial Wind was composed in 1987 by Robert Sirota and given its premiere by Victoria Sirota in the spring of that year at Bremen Cathedral (Germany). The work is inspired by Acts 2:2-3: “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.” This Pentecost text, which describes the descent of the Holy Spirit as rushing wind and tongues of fire, is a potent subject for a work written for a grand organ in a majestic space. Genre Contemporary Classical
