Eric Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs (Junges Vokalensemble Hannover, K.-J. Etzold)

Eric Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs (Junges Vokalensemble Hannover, K.-J. Etzold)

Vokalensemble Hannover

Published on Oct 5, 2012

Eric Whitacre (*1970): Five Hebrew Love Songs
Text: Hila Plitmann
Junges Vokalensemble Hannover (Germany), conductor: Klaus-Juergen Etzold
Hartwig Meynecke ­ violin
Katharina Sahlfeld ­ soprano
Michael Immer ­ tambourine
Alexander Schories ­ piano

This video was made during the CD production and as promotion for the new
Eric Whitacre CD “hope, faith, life, love ­ Choral Music by Eric Whitacre”
with Junges Vokalensemble Hannover, conductor: Klaus-Juergen Etzold (Rondeau Production ROP6064, in cooperation with Deutschlandradio Kultur).
Date of recording: 30.6.2012, Pauluskirche Hannover (Germany)

The CD will be available commercially from 22.10.2012.
From January 2013 also on iTunes.

http://www.vokalensemble-hannover.de
http://www.rondeau.de

Camera: Jan Biring, Jan Frühauf, Michael Immer
Edit: Jan Frühauf
Sound: Tobias Hoff (Rondeau Production)

Texts:

I. Temuná (A picture)
Temuná belibí charutá;
Nodédet beyn ór uveyn ófel:
Min dmamá shekazó et guféch kach otá,
Usaréch al paná”ich kach nófel.

II. Kalá kallá (Light bride)
Kalá kallá Kulá shelí,
la la la la la la la la.
U”vekalút Tishák hi li!
La la la la la la la la.

III. Lárov (Mostly)
“Laróv, amár gag la”shama”im,
“Hamerchák shebeynéynu hu ad;
Ach lifnéy zman alu lechán shna”im,
Uveynéynu nishár sentiméter echad.”

IV. Éyze shéleg! (What snow!)
Éyze shéleg!
Kmo chalomót ktaním Noflím mehashamá¹im.

V. Rakút (Tenderness)
Hu hayá malé rakút; Hi haytá kashá.
Vechól káma shenistá lehishaér kach,
Pashút, uvlí sibá tová,
Lakách otá el toch atzmó,
Veheníach Bamakóm hachí rach.

I. A Picture
A picture is engraved in my heart;
Moving between light and darkness:
A sort of silence envelopes your body,
And your hair falls upon your face just so.

II. Light bride
Light bride she is all mine,
la la la la la la la la.
And lightly she will kiss me!
La la la la la la la la.

III. Mostly
“Mostly,” said the roof to the sky,
“the distance between you and me is endlessness;
But a while ago two came up here,
and only one centimeter was left between us.”

IV. What snow!
What snow!
Like little dreams
Falling from the sky.

V. Tenderness
He was full of tenderness;
She was very hard.
And as much as she tried to stay thus,
Simply, and with no good reason,
He took her into himself,
And set her down
in the softest, softest place.

Text: Hila Plitmann

great compositions/performances: Eric Whitacre conducts HOPE, FAITH, LIFE, LOVE (Junges Vokalensemble Hannover)

Eric Whitacre conducts HOPE, FAITH, LIFE, LOVE (Junges Vokalensemble Hannover)

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Uploaded on Feb 26, 2011

Eric Whitacre conducts Junges Vokalensemble Hannover: Hope, Faith, Life, Love –
Concert from 15.01.2011 in Markuskirche Hannover (Germany) –
Regular conductor: Klaus-Juergen Etzold –
http://www.vokalensemble-hannover.de

Camera: Jan Frühauf / Johannes Hasselhorn
Edit: Jan Frühauf
Sound: Martin Pahl

Just a Thought: The oldest Christian Faith is here ( it is the rock on which the roots gave a 2000 Years old oak tree…of many branches

Just a thought: “The oldest Christian Faith is here: it is the rock on which the roots gave a 2000 Years old oak tree…of many branches… they would not exist without the common roots of  our  common FAITH.”

-George-B

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today’s holiday: St. Elmo’s Day

St. Elmo’s Day

The day known as St. Elmo’s Day is actually St. Erasmus‘s Day, in honor of a third-century Italian bishop who is thought to have suffered martyrdom around the year 304. Erasmus was a patron saint of sailors and was especially popular in the 13th century. Sometimes at sea on stormy nights, sailors will see a pale, brushlike spray of electricity at the top of the mast. In the Middle Ages, they believed that these fires were the souls of the departed, rising to glory through the intercession of St. Elmo. Such an electrical display is still referred to as “St. Elmo’s Fire.” More… Discuss

They lived Christianity: Italy’s saints of social action :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

By Andrea Gagliarducci

Turin, Italy, May 15, 2015 / 04:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Turin is an opportunity to reflect on the outstanding group of saints whose lives embodied Catholic social teaching in 19th century Turin, when the Piedmont region underwent an industrial revolution and secularizing trends amid struggles to build a unified Italian state.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Holy See’s emeritus Secretary of State, stressed the importance of these “social action saints” ahead of the June papal visit to Turin, the Piedmont regional capital.

Cardinal Bertone spoke to CNA from the Turin International Book Fair, where he was presenting his book “Faith and the Common Good: Christian Proposals for Contemporary Society,” published by Vatican Publishing House. The work is a collection of his writings and speeches about Catholic social teaching.

The cardinal is from Piedmont and is a member of the Salesian congregation, founded by St. John Bosco. This saint dedicated himself to the betterment of Torinese youth in the 19th century. He founded the Salesians to educate the impoverished young and to prepare them for occupations.

Cardinal Bertone stressed that the social action saints “contributed in shaping the society with a multiplicity of charitable works, social and educational initiatives, thus bringing the name of Piedmont to the farthest lands.”

These saints helped Italian immigrants and indigenous peoples who needed assistance and education “to achieve an integral development.”

Pope Francis will be in Turin June 21-22 in the midst of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of St. John Bosco’s birth, thus paying homage to one of the most prominent social action saints from Piedmont. During his trip, the Pope on June 21 will visit the St. Joseph Cottolengo institute, named for another of these social action saints, to meet with sick people.

According to Cardinal Bertone, the presence of the “social saints” prove that Italian society was shaped by Christian values despite the fact that the movement towards the establishment of the Italian state appeared to take a path far from Christian values.

The social action saints flourished in mid-19th century Turin and its vicinities, such as the small northern Italian State of Savoy, whose territory included sections of the present-day Italian regions of Piedmont, Liguria and Sardinia.

Many of these social action saints took inspiration from one another, Cardinal Bertone recounted.

“St. John Bosco was the founder of the Salesian family, apostle to the young people,” the cardinal explained. “He was inspired and guided by St. Joseph Cafasso.”

St. Joseph Cafasso, a Piedmont priest, was also an inspiration for his nephew, Bl. Joseph Allamano, who founded the Missionaries of the Consolation. These missionaries “brought the Gospel and human progress to Africa.”

Cardinal Bertone then discussed St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo, “the apostle of the very least ones, who – as Pope Francis would put it – opposed the ‘throwaway culture’ and took care of the sickest and most abandoned people.”

Among St. John Bosco’s collaborators was St. Leonardo Murialdo, who founded the Congregation of St. Joseph. Cardinal Bertone said he may be considered “the apostle of workers, as he was close to workers unions.”

St. Luigi Orione took inspiration from St. John Bosco and St. Leonardo Murialdo in his work with young people. He drew on the example of St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo for his care for the sick.

Cardinal Bertone said St. Luigi Orione founded charitable works “according to the needs he would discover in Italy, Europe and in America.”

Finally, Cardinal Bertone recalled the example of Blessed Francis Faa di Bruno, an engineer and mathematician who took care of women workers, a new reality in the industrial era.

Cardinal Bertone said that the experience of these social action saints developed further and would reach out to “the extreme frontiers.”

Among the various initiatives, Cardinal Bertone recounted that Salesian missionaries from Piedmont in 1905 traveled to the distant Argentine town of Ushuaia, the southernmost city of the world. There they promoted the cultivation of potatoes and livestock.

Cardinal Bertone said there are Salesian weather stations from Piedmont established in the Italian region of Liguria and in the far south of Argentina that are still in operation.

Tags: Cardinal Bertone, Catholic Social Teaching, St. John Bosco, St. Joseph Cafasso

via They lived Christianity: Italy’s saints of social action :: Catholic News Agency (CNA).

LEONARD COHEN : Story of Isaac Listen to the Jaw harp- we call that “drmba” in Romanian!)

 Send “Story Of Isaac” to your Cell 
Story Of Isaac, by Leonard Cohen

The door it opened slowly, 
My father he came in, 
I was nine years old. 
And he stood so tall above me, 
His blue eyes they were shining 
And his voice was very cold. 
He said, “i’ve had a vision 
And you know I’m strong and holy, 
I must do what i’ve been told.” 
So he started up the mountain, 
I was running, he was walking, 
And his axe was made of gold. 
Well, the trees they got much smaller, 
The lake a lady’s mirror, 
We stopped to drink some wine. 
Then he threw the bottle over. 
Broke a minute later 
And he put his hand on mine. 
Thought I saw an eagle 
But it might have been a vulture, 
I never could decide. 
Then my father built an altar, 
He looked once behind his shoulder, 
He knew I would not hide. 

You who build these altars now 
To sacrifice these children, 
You must not do it anymore. 
A scheme is not a vision 
And you never have been tempted 
By a demon or a god. 
You who stand above them now, 
Your hatchets blunt and bloody, 
You were not there before, 
When I lay upon a mountain 
And my father’s hand was trembling 
With the beauty of the word. 

And if you call me brother now, 
Forgive me if I inquire, 
“Just according to whose plan?” 
When it all comes down to dust 
I will kill you if I must, 
I will help you if I can. 
When it all comes down to dust 
I will help you if I must, 
I will kill you if I can. 
And mercy on our uniform, 
Man of peace or man of war, 
The peacock spreads his fan…

 Send “Story Of Isaac” to your Cell 

 

SABIHA GÖKÇEN, FIRST FEMALE COMBAT PILOT

When Gökçen was 10 years old, Turkey became a republic. As it Westernized during the presidency of her adoptive father, Kemal Atatürk, Turkish women gained more freedom, securing the right to vote in 1934. A year later, Gökçen enrolled in the Türkkusu Flight School as its first female pupil. After attending the Air Force Academy, she became the first female combat pilot. While with the Turkish Air Force, she logged some 8,000 flight hours, including combat missions. Why had Atatürk adopted her?More… Discuss

 

Quotation: George Eliot on human feeling

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

George Eliot (1819-1880) Discuss

LEONARD COHEN : Story of Isaac (“…A scheme is not a vision…”)

Send “Story of Isaac” Ringtone to your Cell

Story of Isaac Leonard Cohen 

The door it opened slowly,
My father he came in,was nine years old.
And he stood so tall above me,
His blue eyes they were shining
And his voice was very cold.
He said, I’ve had a vision
And you know I’m strong and holy,
I must do what I’ve been told.
So he started up the mountain,
I was running, he was walking,
And his axe was made of gold.

Well, the trees they got much smaller,
The lake a lady’s mirror,
We stopped to drink some wine.
Then he threw the bottle over.
Broke a minute later
And he put his hand on mine.
Thought I saw an eagle
But it might have been a vulture,
I never could decide.
Then my father built an altar,
He looked once behind his shoulder,
He knew I would not hide.

You who build these altars now
To sacrifice these children,
You must not do it anymore.
A scheme is not a vision
And you never have been tempted
By a demon or a god.
You who stand above them now,
Your hatchets blunt and bloody,
You were not there before,
When I lay upon a mountain
And my father’s hand was trembling
With the beauty of the word.

And if you call me brother now,
Forgive me if I inquire,
Just according to whose plan? 
When it all comes down to dust
I will kill you if I must,
I will help you if I can.
When it all comes down to dust
I will help you if I must,
I will kill you if I can.
And mercy on our uniform,
Man of peace or man of war,
The peacock spreads his fan.

Send “Story of Isaac” Ringtone to your Cell

Today’s Quotation: Mark Twain – on “Faith and belief”

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) Discuss

Billy Joel en Tokyo 2006 SHE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN TO ME

She can kill with a smile
She can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child,
But she’s always a woman to me

She can lead you to love
She can take you or leave you
She can ask for the truth
But she’ll never believe
And she’ll take what you give her, as long as it’s free
Yeah, she steals like a thief
But she’s always a woman to me

CHORUS:
Oh–she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She’s ahead of her time
Oh–and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind

And she’ll promise you more
Than the Garden of Eden
Then she’ll carelessly cut you
And laugh while you’re bleedin’
But she’ll bring out the best
And the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself
Cause she’s always a woman to me
–Mhmm–

Bridge

CHORUS:
Oh–she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She’s ahead of her time
Oh–and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind

She is frequently kind
And she’s suddenly cruel
She can do as she pleases
She’s nobody’s fool
And she can’t be convicted
She’s earned her degree
And the most she will do
Is throw shadows at you
But she’s always a woman to me
–Mhmm–