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CREDO/ANI MA’AMIN for twelve voices SATB (2006)

PROGRAM NOTE As a Jew, I come to the Mass from the perspective of “the Other.” Not musically, of course. With Western Music tradition as my musical foundation since early childhood, the great religious works by composers from the Renaissance and Baroque eras and onwards are at the very heart of what Music means to…
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O THE CHIMNEYS for female voice, ensemble, and tape (1969)

PROGRAM NOTE O The Chimneys is a setting of five poems by Nelly Sachs, the great German-Jewish 1966 Nobel Prize co-winner in literature, whose writing concerned itself almost entirely with the subject of the holocaust. Composed in 1969, the work was my personal way of saying, through my own art, ‘do not forget’. I selected…
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