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Music by David Hoenigsberg and Robert Rollin; conducted by Rollin and Hoenigsberg
Walter Mony, violin/viola
David Hoenigsberg
Robert Rollin
The Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra
This recording is part of the Dana Recording Project and is sponsored by the New Music Society with additional support from the Dana School of Music, The Youngstown State University College of Fine and Performing Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council. Proceeds benefit the New Music Society Guest Artist and Young Composers Scholarship Funds. All music licensed by ASCAP
09: LYRIC COUNTERPOINT FOR VIOLIN AND STRING ORCHESTRA — Robert Rollin
This contrapuntal piece is a set of variations on "Eyfin Pripitchok," a melody by Mark Warshawsky (1845-1904). A lawyer by profession, Warshawsky had a passion for folk singing. He was championed in America by the great Jewish writer Shalom Aleychem, and collections of his music were published in 1907 and 1914. This particular song became so embedded in the cultural psyche of the Jewish people, it achieved folk-song status. The traditional natural minor mode of the Ashkenazim with it's lowered seventh degree of the scale is enhanced by daring ventures into extreme registers, poignant harmonic sprinkling, and cunning invertible counterpoint. This captures the sweet nostalgic childhood reminiscence of the glow of fire-place embers as the Rabbi inducts the children into the mysteries of the alphabet.
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Legends, Ceremonials, and Prayer
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The Wandering Bird
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