The Feast of Lights
for 2 voices and band
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Story behind the piece:
A Channukah (Hanukah - and other spellings!) piece - originally written for 2 soprano parts and piano for the girls of Bury Grammar School for girls, who performed it at the RNCM in 1994.
This version (for two alto parts) is created online with my collaborator Lorin Swelk, who took the piano part by the scruff of its neck and turned it into a Klezmer band.
The words are by Emma Lazarus (who is also famous for writing the words that appear at the foot of the Statue of Liberty in New York):
"Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
ablaze on evening's forehead oe'r the earth,
And add each night a luster till afar
an eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.
Clash, Israel, the cymbals, touch the lyre,
Blow the bass trumpet and the harsh tongued horn;
Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire,
The Maccabean spirit leap new-born."
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for 2 voices and band
Download mp3 proStream mp3 proStory behind the piece:
A Channukah (Hanukah - and other spellings!) piece - originally written for 2 soprano parts and piano for the girls of Bury Grammar School for girls, who performed it at the RNCM in 1994.
This version (for two alto parts) is created online with my collaborator Lorin Swelk, who took the piano part by the scruff of its neck and turned it into a Klezmer band.
The words are by Emma Lazarus (who is also famous for writing the words that appear at the foot of the Statue of Liberty in New York):
"Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
ablaze on evening's forehead oe'r the earth,
And add each night a luster till afar
an eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.
Clash, Israel, the cymbals, touch the lyre,
Blow the bass trumpet and the harsh tongued horn;
Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire,
The Maccabean spirit leap new-born."
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