This suite of three settings from Song of Songs is now available from E.C. Schirmer as pre-publication editions.   Each piece has the Hebrew text along with an alternative sing-able English.  Furthermore each piece is available in one of three different voicings.   Kol dodi, hinei zeh bah (My Beloved Calls)      Songs of Songs […]

SATB with keyboard.   Hebrew and English Text (2:26)   Available  from Transcontinental Music Publications (993449)   (I can send you an mp3 of the score upon request.)

SATB with keyboard, optional flute, optional percussion.   Hebrew text.  (2:54)   Over an Erik Satie-like accompaniment, three independent, meditative melodic lines develop additively before moving into a short SATB interlude.   Available from Transcontinental Music Publications (993436)   (An mp3 of the score can be sent to you upon request.)

This is a quiet, meditative settiing with Hebrew and English text.  (3:48)   Hanerot Halalu is a traditional Chanukah prayer read/sung just after the Chanukah candle blessings are chanted and the candles are kindled.  In the English text that I have composed, I have chosen to emphasize by reiteration (“And we just watch them burn.”) […]

I hope it is not too late to post for the Christmas season!  Hopefully, this Carol will find it’s premiere this Season or next!   A lovely, haunting melody, my setting of “The Cherry Tree Carol” is for SATB and piano. A wonderful song for the Christmas Season, this version is not difficult and could […]