Hila plitmann five hebrew love songs eric whitacre

In the spring of , my great friend and brilliant violinist Friedemann Eichhorn invited me and my girlfriend-at-the-time Hila Plitmann a soprano to give a concert with him in his home city of Speyer, Germany. We had all met that year as students at the Juilliard School, and were inseparable. I set them while we vacationed in a small skiing village in the Swiss Alps, and we performed them for the first time a week later in Speyer.

In , the University of Miami commissioned me to adapt the songs for SATB chorus and string quartet, and the Efroni Choir in Israel commissioned me to adapt them for SA, violin and piano, leaving me now with five! Each of the songs captures a moment that Hila and I shared together. 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.

Light bride She is all mine, And lightly She will kiss me! He was full of tenderness; She was very hard.

In the spring of , my great friend and brilliant violinist Friedemann Eichhorn invited me and my girlfriend-at-the-time Hila Plitmann (a soprano) to give a.

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. GIA Publications. Licensing GIA Publications. Note from Composer In the spring of , my great friend and brilliant violinist Friedemann Eichhorn invited me and my girlfriend-at-the-time Hila Plitmann a soprano to give a concert with him in his home city of Speyer, Germany.