Five Hebrew Love Songs Friday, November 12, 2021
Five Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre, for Soprano with piano, violin & tambourine
In this suite, each song is a “postcard,” capturing lush, romantic moments in full. This version is scored for soprano solo, piano, violin, and tambourine (played by the singer). Packaged here with everything needed for performance: two full scores (for soprano and accompanist) and one violin score (tambourine part is in the full score).
From the composer:
“In the spring of 1996, my great friend and brilliant violinist Friedemann Eichhorn invited me and my girlfriend-at-the-time Hila Plitmann (a soprano) to give a concert with him in his home city of Speyer, Germany. We had all met that year as students at the Juilliard School, and were inseparable.
Because we were appearing as a band of traveling musicians, ‘Friedy’ asked me to write a set of troubadour songs for piano, violin and soprano. I asked Hila (who was born and raised in Jerusalem) to write me a few ‘postcards’ in her native tongue, and a few days later she presented me with these exquisite and delicate Hebrew poems. I set them while we vacationed in a small skiing village in the Swiss Alps, and we performed them for the first time a week later in Speyer.
Each of the songs captures a moment that Hila and I shared together. Kalá Kallá (which means ‘light bride’) was a pun I came up with while she was first teaching me Hebrew. The bells at the beginning of Éyze Shéleg! are the exact pitches that awakened us each morning in Germany as they rang from a nearby cathedral.”
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