Description
Audio
Musica Sacra
Mary Beekman, conductor
℗ Musica Sacra
Artwork © Ayala Netzer
Duration
11 min
Premiere
March 21, 2009
First Church, Cambridge, MA
Musica Sacra
Mary Beekman, conductor
First Church, Cambridge, MA
Musica Sacra
Mary Beekman, conductor
Commissioner
Commissioned by Musica Sacra
Instrumentation
SATB, a cappella
Text
1. Yehuda Amichai
2. Psalm (cento by Elana M. Messer)
3. Joseph G. Rosenstein
2. Psalm (cento by Elana M. Messer)
3. Joseph G. Rosenstein
Songs
1. Shir Moledet (Homeland Song)
2. Mayim (Water)
3. T'Filat Geshem (Prayer for Rain)
2. Mayim (Water)
3. T'Filat Geshem (Prayer for Rain)
Program Notes
Paths of Stone and Water was commissioned by Musica Sacra. It was composed in Cambridge, Massachusetts and completed in December of 2008. The first movement is a setting of a poem by Yehuda Amichai. The text of the second movement is a psalm cento created for this work by Elana M. Messer. The text of the third movement is a modern adaptation of a traditional prayer for rain written by Joseph G. Rosenstein.
–Osnat Netzer