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Re: orion-list Hymns / Music
According to Henry Parker:
>
> Dean Kampen, would you elaborate a little more about the musical
> composition for the Hymns; Isreal's 50th. Are there any recordings and
> can they be purchased?
I think there were recordings available of the music at the Gift Shop at
the Qumran National Park in Israel.
> Also, who did the composing of the music? Peace,
> Henry Parker
The following is a program note for Michael Wolpe (related to Stefan,
does anyone know?) and his composition for the International Congress held
in Jerusalem in July 1997, THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS FIFTY YEARS AFTER THEIR
DISCOVERY.
-------------QUOTED MATERIAL---------------------------------
Based on selected text from the Dead Sea
Scrolls, a special, musical composition,
commissioned by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of
the discovery of the scrolls was performed by
the Caprizma Chamber Ensemble, the Liron Choir
with soloists, Mira Zakai and Ofer Halaf. This
nine-part composition, incorporating Yigal
Yadin's famous speech and a recording of the
[Image] poetess Lea Goldberg's readings from her Songs
of the Land I Love, produced an eerie blend of
classical and Middle Eastern harmonies,
resonating through the hills around us and
carried by the wind back into the desert. The
inspiration for the piece came from the
scrolls' texts themselves, and the composer
Michael Wolpe, describes his creation as an
exhilarating experience, drawing from the
Qumran texts which took on new meanings for
him and connected to todays' realities.
-----------------------------END QUOTED MATERIAL---------------------
I don't have the program book from the final program handy, but perhaps
someone else does. That would be where the contents of the piece were
specified. As I recall, Wolpe's composition did include at least one hymn
from the Dead Sea Scrolls, but whether it was from the Hodayot or not I
don't know.
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