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Arranger Osnat Netzer

Shir Moledet is the rst of three movements of the piece Paths of Stone and Water. Through the vantage point of three texts of di erent nature and origins (modern Hebrew poetry, psalms, and modern liturgical), Paths of Stone and Water examines water, stone, and the human in myriad ways. The text of Shir Moledet is by Yehuda Amichai, and portrays a complex relationship of the poet to the city of Jerusalem, familiarizing himself with local waterways through 'the tears'-his tears? Collective tears shed over the city? The poet leaves this ambiguous.

Jerusalem architecture is known for its ubiquitous use of Jerusalem stone, and thus stone and water become symbols through which the poet can examine his own reaction to this city loaded with history and religion. The music of this movement pays tribute to the Israeli Mediterranean School of the 30s and 40s, in its use of modality and alternating homophonic and polyphonic textures. My own charged relationship to Jerusalem comes into play in the latter part of the song, where the words "currently I am more inclined to favor stones" are laden with harmonic poignancy.

Osnat Netzer

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