The score and parts will be available for purchase in late Spring 2024
World premiere to take place in mid-April 2024. Details T.B.A. Proceeds from the sale of sheet music will be donated to charity. Details T.B.A.
Duration ca. 18 – 20 minutes
Instrumentation: Clarinet, String Quartet & Audio Playback
A multi-movement work for intermediate to advanced performers whose goals it is to share and the rich cultural heritage of the Palestinian people. Though this work is inspired by folk songs and rhythms and body movements from folk dances, this work is not a mere arrangement of this source material. Rather, this work aspires to re-imagine these folk elements in a new setting so as to be able to hear, experience and understand them, and the culture which produced them, in a different light.
I. The Climbers – يا طالعين عالجبل
II. Blessed Are Your Wedding Garments – مبارك الملبوس
III. Dance of the Mijwiz – رقص المجوز
IV. Three Village Wedding Songs
The chiming bracelet – رنت سيورة
Register the bride’s name, oh judge – سجّل يا قاضي سجّل
God bless the henna painter – يا محنّي العريس [This section requires audio playback]*
* The audio playback can be as simple as a smartphone playback connected to speakers, even simple ones. At a a point indicated in the score, the clarinetist press ‘play’ on a phone or other device and the quintet continues on. No complicated setup is required.