Three Songs for Jerusalem
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
Three Songs for Jerusalem, for soprano, Baroque flute, Baroque oboe, Baroque violin,
viola da gamba, and harpsichord,was comissioned by the Jerusalem Foundation for the celebration of the 3000th
anniversary of the City of Jerusalem.
The first song is from the 12th centruy poet and philosopher Yehuda Halevi's
description of a traveller's first view of the Holy Land seen from the wings of an
eagle. The second song combines a biblical call to the daughters of Jerusalem to
rejoise, with lines from contemporary poet Yehuda Amichai, who hears the calls to
prayer in the city amidst the din of air raid sirens. The final song quotes Isaac
Manger's post-Holocaust answer to Halevi's image by asking how we can kiss
the dust of the Holy Land when we, ourselves, are dust.
Description
Type of resource | mixed material |
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Date created | [ca. 2003] |
Creators/Contributors
Author | Jonathan Berger |
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Subjects
Subject | Jerusalem |
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Subject | Amichai |
Subject | chamber music |
Subject | early music ensemble |
Subject | American Baroque |
Bibliographic information
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qv645zh4661 |
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