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A Tribute to Israeli Composer Yehezkel Braun

1320 Centre Street, Suite 306 Joshua Jacobson, Artistic Director Newton, MA 02459 • 617.244.6333 www.zamir.org • [email protected] June 5 & 6, 2016 Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University

Braun Program.indd 1 5/19/16 11:21 AM IV. Song Cycle Shirey Ha-Yonah Ve-Ha-Shoshan (Songs of the Lily and the Dove) 1956 Te Gente Spiri of Israel Lyrics by Leah Goldberg; Music by Yehezkel Braun, Cantor Louise Treitman, soprano A Tribute to Israeli Composer Yehezkel Braun 1. Beruakh Arbayim (The Cool of the Evening) 2. Yayin Atik (Mellow Wine) I. Popular Songs 3. Le’an Halakh Dodekh (Where Has Your Beloved Gone?) Shibbolet Ba-Sadeh (Grain in the Field) 1962 4. Ba’ani Ha-Laila (The Night Has Enclosed Me) Lyrics and Music by Matityahu Shelem; Arr. Yehezkel Braun

Uri Tsafon (Awake, O North Wind) 1975 V. Love Lyrics from the Song of Songs 4:16; Music by Dov Carmel; Arr. Yehezkel Braun Shir Ha-shirim III 1973 Lyrics from Song of Songs chapter 3; Music by Yehezkel Braun; Soloists: Elana Rome, Ronu Na (Rejoice) 1956 Lyrics by Gershon Plotkin; Music by Alexander (Sasha) Argov; Arr. Yehezkel Braun Gail Terman, Lawrence E. Sandberg, Peter Bronk, Naomi Gurt Lind 1. Al Mishkavi Ba-leylot (Night after Night in Bed) 2. Metsa’uni Ha-shomerim (The Night Watchmen Found Me) II. Wisdom 3. Hishbati Etkhem (Swear to Me) Hem Ameru (From the Sayings of Our Forefathers) 2005 4. Mi Zot Olah Min Ha-midbar? (Who Emerges from the Wilderness?) Lyrics from Mishnah Pirkey Avot; Music by Yehezkel Braun; Soloists: Anne Levy, 5. Apiryon (King Solomon’s Palanquin) Sharon Goldstein, Naomi Gurt Lind, Steven Ebstein, Hal Katzman, Devin Lawrence 6. Tsena Ur’ena (Come Out and See) 1. Moshe Kibel Torah Mi-Sinai (The Transmission of the Torah) 2. Al Shelosha Devarim (What Keeps the World Going) 3. Aseh Lekha Rav (Have a Master and a Friend) VI. Shofar 4. Hevey Marbeh Lakhkor (Cross-examine the Witnesses) Hilkhot Tekiyat Shofar (Festive Horns) 1980 5. Ehov Et Ha-melakha (Love Your work) Lyrics from Mishnah Rosh Hashanah; Music by Yehezkel Braun 6. Im Eyn Torah (Torah and Common Decency) Soloists: Anne Levy, Steven Ebstein 7. Eyze Hu Khakham (Who Is Truly Wise?) 1. Kol Ha-shofarot Kesherot (Shofars That Are Proper for Use) 8. Ha-kin’ah (Envy, Greed and Honor) 2. Shofar She-le-Rosh Hashanah (The Shofar for New Years) 9. Ha-Lomed Yeled (Learning in One’s Youth) 3. Ba-ta’aniyot (On Fast Days) 10. Ha-Lomed Min Ha-ketanim (Learning from Inexperienced Youths) 4. Shaveh Ha-yovel (The Jubilee Shofar) 11. Ha-kin’ah (Envy, Greed and Honor) 5. Shofar She-nisdak (A Damaged Shofar) 12. Hafokh Bah (Delve Deeply) 13. Lefum Tsa’ara Agra (No Pain, No Gain) 6. Ha-tokeya Letokh Ha-bor (The Echo of a Shofar in a Cistern) 14. Moshe Kibel Torah Mi-Sinai (The Transmission of the Torah) VI. Hallel III. Popular Songs Halleluyah (from Hallel) 1979, revised 1984 Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) 1989 Lyrics from Psalm 113; Music by Yehezkel Braun Lyrics and Music by Naomi Shemer; Arr. Yehezkel Braun; Soloist: Maayan Harel

Vayyimalet Kayyin (Cain Fled) 1973 Thank you for turning off all cell phones and pages. Lyrics by Yaacov Shabtai; Music by Yehezkel Braun; Soloist: Hal Katzman Photography and recording of these performances are prohibited.

Braun Program.indd 2-3 5/19/16 11:21 AM In 1982 Yehezkel Braun was a visiting faculty at Brandeis University. On March Notes from the Artistic Director 28 of that year the Zamir Chorale of Boston participated in a concert of Braun’s Yehezkel Braun was born in Breslau, Germany in 1922, and was brought to the music at Brandeis’s Slosberg Recital Hall. Tonight Zamir returns to Brandeis land of Israel with his parents when he was two years old. Braun recalled that his to perform a tribute concert in memory of this great composer. The program earliest musical memories were on the one hand the recordings of Italian opera reprises three works that were presented at the 1982 concert, Song of Songs that his father would often play, notably Madame Butterfly and La Bohème, and Chapter Three, Songs of the Dove and the Lily, and Festive Horns. In addition, we on the other hand the indigenous singing of Yemenite women who would pass are performing the American premiere of Hem Ameru (from Mishnah Pirkey Avot, by his home on their way to work. Braun studied composition with Alexander composed for Zamir’s 36th anniversary), Halleluyah (from the Hallel Service), Boscovic, who believed that composers should strive to cultivate an “Israeli” Vayimalet Kayin (originally composed for the popular Yarkon Bridge Trio), and style by consciously incorporating rhythms and melodic motifs borrowed from Braun’s arrangement of four popular Israeli songs, Shibbolet Ba-Sadeh, Uri traditional Jewish chant. Braun was certainly attracted to traditional Jewish Tsafon, Ronu Na, and Yerushalayim Shel Zahav. melodies; he collected them and used many of them in his compositions. But he also was attracted to Gregorian Chant, in which he immersed himself with several We reproduce below the notes that Braun wrote for the 1982 program: sojourns to the Solemnes Monastery. He studied music at the Tel Aviv Academy, from which he graduated in 1953, and then returned to academia two decades Shir Hashirim III (Cantici Canticorum Caput III) This work is a setting, for mixed later to study for a bachelor’s degree in Classics at Tel Aviv University. choir a cappella, of the third chapter of Song of Songs. The melodic idiom is inspired by, but not based upon, biblical cantillation. I envisaged a sort of One can hear all these influences in Braun’s music. Braun’s love of vocal melodies musical texture and style that would bring out the words as clearly as possible, is certainly appreciated by anyone who sings his music. Many years ago Braun told as they would be pronounced in spirited, rhythmical, speech. Moreover, I had in me that he doesn’t compose harmonically, rather he composes “horizontally,” mind the double nature of this unique poetry: as a collection of charmingly conceiving of each voice part as its own melody. And as Jehoash Hirshberg innocent love and wedding songs of an ancient people and as the greatest and pointed out in a recent article, Braun never thought about composing while he most profound expression of the special bond between the people of Israel and was composing. Braun wrote, “I gave up on two things: on thinking about music the Holy Presence. and on thinking what to think and how to think, to compose while thinking. It used to cause me torment and terrible emotional pain. One day I said to myself: Songs of the Dove and the Lily This is a setting for voice and piano of a cycle the hell with all that, I will write what I hear. … Music is something that either of four poems by Leah Goldberg. The poems are about tender love, cruelly happens or does not.” frustrated. The dramatic climax is reached in the third song. The last song is an echo of the first, but, emerging from the depths of despair, the dove, symbol of And for Yehezkel Braun, music certainly did happen. In his 92 years he produced hope, reappears. an enormous output of works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo piano, chorus and solo voice. In his vocal works, the music flows from the text, Festive Horns This work for choir and brass octet is a setting of six passages expressing it but never overpowering it. His adherence to principles of classical from the Mishnaic tractate “Rosh Hashanah”, dealing with rules and customs of form makes his music readily understood and appreciated by all audiences. And blowing the shofars and trumpets on the High Holidays and on other occasions. his use of melodies and styles extracted from folklore give much of his music a The choir presents the Mishnaic text while the brass instruments, evoking in a sense of groundedness. But above all else, Yehezkel Braun’s music reflects the stylized manner the memory of the ancient ritual horns and trumpets, weave a personality of Yehezkel Braun, noble yet humble, gentle but principled, generous musical commentary around the text chanted by the choir, much in the manner of and loving. May his memory—and his music—be a blessing. later Rabbinical commentaries that used to be set around the Mishnaic text. –Y. B.

Braun Program.indd 4-1 5/19/16 11:21 AM Conductor and ArtisticJoshua R. Jacobson, Director founder and BrassHorns: Whit Hill, Octet Lauren Winter, Fred Aldrich director of the Zamir Chorale of Trumpets: Joseph Foley, Mark Emery Boston, is Professor of Music and Trombones: Alexei Doohovskoy, Joseph McEttrick Director of Choral Activities at Tuba: Jerome Stover Northeastern University and Visit- Contractor: Bruce Creditor ing Professor and Senior Consul- tant in the School of Jewish Music at Hebrew College. He has guest conducted a number of ensem- TSopranose Zamir Chorale of Boston bles, including the Boston Pops Or- Betty Bauman • Melanie Blatt • Joyce Bohnen • Sharon Goldstein • Naomi Gurt chestra and the Bulgarian National Lind • Maayan Harel • Marilyn J. Jaye • Anne Levy • Elana Rome • Sharon Shore Symphony and Chorus. He has Francene Sokol • Louise Treitman guest lectured and taught work- shops for schools, synagogues, festivals, and conventions throughout North America Altos and in Israel. He has written two books, dozens of articles, and over 100 published Anna Adler • Sarah Boling • Johanna Ehrmann • Deborah Melkin • Rachel Miller compositions, editions, and arrangements. Dr. Jacobson holds degrees in music from Judy Pike • Jill Sandberg • Nancy Sargon-Zarsky • Gail Terman • Phyllis Werlin Harvard College, the New Conservatory, and the University of Cincinnati. Charna Westervelt • Phyllis Sogg Wilner Tenors David Burns • Steven Ebstein • Gabriel Goldman • Suzanne Goldman Hal Katzman • Kevin Martin • Andrew Mattfeld • Dan Nesson • Leila Joy Rosenthal Lawrence E. Sandberg • Gilbert Schiffer • Dan Seltzer • Yishai Sered Accompanist Edwin Swanborn, accompanist, studied Andrew Stitcher with Dr. Anthony Newman at the Juil- Basses liard School of Music in New York, and Peter Bronk • Abba Caspi • Phil Goldman • Michael Krause-Grosman has participated in master classes with Michael Kronenberg • Devin Lawrence • Richard Lustig • James Rosenzweig Gustav Leonhardt and Anton Heiller. He Peter Squires • Mark Stepner • Michael Victor • Jordan Lee Wagner is Music Director of the historic First Par- Robert Wright • Richard Yospin ish Church in Duxbury, and the Artistic Director of the Candlelight Concert Se- ries of Duxbury, a nationally recognized chamber music series. Founder-Director of the Boston Baroque Chamber Players and harpsichordist of the Virtu- osi, Ed also serves on the music staff of Northeastern University.

Braun Program.indd 2-3 5/19/16 11:21 AM Zamir Chorale of Boston Staff Music wih a Mission Joshua R. Jacobson, Artistic Director Founded in 1969, the Zamir Chorale of Boston’s mission is to serve as “a musical Barbara Gaffin, Managing Director and educational organization dedicated to raising awareness of the breadth Lawrence E. Sandberg, Concert Manager and Merchandise Manager and beauty of Jewish culture through performances, recordings, symposia, Edwin Swanborn, Accompanist publications, and musical commissions.” Led by Founder and Artistic Director Andrew Mattfeld, Assistant Conductor Joshua Jacobson, the Chorale comprises experienced volunteer singers who Devin Lawrence, Assistant to the Conductor perform music spanning thousands of years, four continents, and a variety of Betty Bauman, Johanna Ehrmann, Steven Ebstein, Andrew Mattfeld, styles, both classical and popular. Zamir’s repertoire includes Jewish liturgical Devin Lawrence, Section Leaders pieces, major classical works, music of the Holocaust, newly commissioned Rachel Miller, President compositions, and Israeli, Yiddish, and Ladino folksongs. Zamir’s music is enjoyed Elana Rome, Vice President by people of all ages, religions and races. Concerts can be designed to meet Michael Kronenberg, Librarian special requirements and always provide an educational component.

In addition to enjoying a devoted following in the Greater Boston area, Zamir has achieved a far-reaching reputation through its 19 recordings and frequent tours throughout the United States, as well as in Israel and Europe. The documentary JoshuaBoard R. Jacobson, of President Directors film, Zamir: Jewish Voices Return to , has been shown across the country Robert Snyder, Chairman on public television stations. In January 2006, Zamir was invited to perform at the Peter Finn, Clerk United Nations General Assembly for the first International Day to Commemorate Gilbert Schiffer, Treasurer Victims of the Holocaust. Zamir was honored to represent the United States at the Richard Blocker first Louis Lewandowski Festival in Berlin, Germany, in 2011 and again in 2014. Frumie Burns Bruce Creditor An important component of Zamir’s mission is to develop future leaders in Bruce Donoff Jewish choral music. Graduates of the program have gone on to conduct choirs Barbara Gaffin, ex officio of their own in Boston and beyond. Zamir also mentors other Jewish community Rachel Miller, ex officio choruses through joint rehearsals and performances. Elana Rome, ex officio The Zamir Chorale of Boston, Choir-in-residence at Hebrew College, Lawrence E. Sandberg is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and by Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Zamir is a member of the Greater Boston Choral Consortium, a cooperative association of diverse choral groups in Boston and the surrounding areas, and the Newton Cultural Alliance.

Braun Program.indd 4-5 5/19/16 11:21 AM The Zamir Chorale of Boston thanks all those who generously contributed to the success of our 2015-16 season. AT Tributee Gen to Israelite Composer Spiri Yehezkel of Israel Braun Conductor’s Circle $10,000+ Newton Festival of the Arts Joshua R. Jacobson, Artistic Director Anonymous Jane Rabb Phyllis and Michael z”l Hammer Fund Deborah and Caesar Raboy The Massachusetts Marketing Cantors Jodi Sufrin and Roy Einhorn Sponsors (as of May 16) Partnership/Massachusetts Office Serene and Michael Victor of Travel & Tourism Shir Chadash Circle ($3,600+) Donor $180-$499 The Massachusetts Marketing Partnership/Massachusetts Office Shir Chadash Circle $3,600-$9,999 Adobe Matching Gift Program of Travel & Tourism Anonymous (2) Susan and Aron Ain The Harold and Evelyn Davis Memorial Foundation** The Harold and Evelyn Davis Lawrence and Adele Fleet Bacow Brandeis University Music Department Memorial Foundation Shari Baker Robert* and Myra Snyder Jill and Gilbert* Schiffer Diane and Chester Black Myra and Robert* Snyder Marilyn Breslau Benefactor ($1,000+) Frumie* and David Burns Joyce and Michael Bohnen Benefactor $1,000-$3,599 Beatrice Carp Nancy and Peter* Finn Joyce and Michael Bohnen Congregation Mishkan Tefila Joshua* and Ronda Garber Jacobson Jayne and Harvey Beker Carole and David Decter Jake and Linda Kriger Lois and Mickey Cail Anita Diamant and Jim Ball Jill and Larry* Sandberg Combined Jewish Philanthropies Sara and Robert Dickman Gilbert* and Jill Schiffer Susan and Bruce* Creditor Robert and Rena Gray Fein Sidney and Deanna Wolk Madelyn and Bruce* Donoff David Feltman Nancy and Peter* Finn Robert Fields Patron ($500+) Paula and James Gould Barbara and Gordon Freed Dr. James and Loren Rosenzweig Joshua* and Ronda Garber Jacobson Barbara Gaffin and Doug Cahn Stephen Kelliher Zelda and Elkan Gamzu Donor ($360+) Linda and Jake Kriger Willie Goldwasser Hillery and Daniel Bauman Leila Joy Rosenthal Lynne and Jonathan Greer Frumie* and David Burns Lauren and James Rosenzweig Barbara and Steve Grossman Susan and Bruce* Creditor Jill and Larry* Sandberg David Harris Madelyn and Bruce* Donoff Sinco, Inc. Susan and Frederic Jacobs Barbara Gaffin* and Doug Cahn Deanna and Sidney Wolk Susan and Gary Jacobson Susan and Frederic Jacobs Eleanor Jacobson Judy Pike and Richard Miller Patron $500-$999 David Kanter Sivya and Nahum Twersky Hillery and Daniel Bauman Sally and Herb Kepnes Serene and Michael Victor Susan and Bruce* Creditor Amy Klein and Brian Lefsky Susan Chadick and Robert Weiss Gennady Konnikov *member, Zamir Board of Directors, 2015-16 Marsha and Harvey Chasen Marcia and Alan Leifer Marcie and Jeffrey Jonas Shawna and Jeffrey Levine **sponsoring tonight’s brass octet David Moeser Trust Levine Chapels

Braun Program.indd 6-7 5/19/16 11:21 AM Zhanna and Harvey Levy Freddie Brooks Suzie Glantz Lisa and Alan Kritz Erica Lippitz Abby and Paul Brown Myra Goggins Michael Kronenberg Ruth and Daniel Pernick Judy Garber and Myles Brown Susan and Bruce Gold Joan and Al Kuhn Judy Pike and Richard Miller Marilyn and Dennis Buchenholz Elinor Goldenberg Juliette Landesman Dan Rome and Cynthia Shulak Eileen Burke Barbara Goldman and Steven Bloom Susan Landsman Sara Ruderman Frumie* and David Burns Jeanne and Mildred Goldman Nan and Andrew Langowitz Jonathan Sarna and Ruth Langer Etta Byer Joyce Shapiro Gordon Betty Lapide Shirley Saunders Judith and Barry Caplan Janet and Mark Gottesman Dorothy Levine Benjie Ellen Schiller and Les Bronstein Ann Carlson Sy Gottlieb Sybil and Steven Levisohn Ruth Ann Schlesinger Donald Cashman Amy J. Gould Judy and Mayer Levitt Josephine and Lewis Schneider Sum Chan Marion and Larry Green Roy and Sara Lichtin Boyd Zvi Sesling and Susan Dechter Judy and Jonathan Chiel Esther and Alan Greif Sue and Kurt Linden Marsha and Marc Slotnick Hillel Chiel and Elizabeth Dreben Elaine and Robert Grover Rise and Richard Liskov Karen and Stan Steinberg Louise Citron Nancy and Greg Hamill Milton Lown Rick and Sandy Thau Amy Cohen James W. Harris Sarah Luria and Tom Schwartz Louise and Rick Treitman Steven Cohen Merle Hass and Sylvain Korzennik Mair and Richard Lustig Sivya and Nahum Twersky Rochelle and Reuven Cohn Danny Hassenfeld and Joni Blum Ruth and Bruce Lynn Moshe Waldoks Bobbie Sue Daitch Lynne Heller Ellen and Dan Mainzer Susan Whitehead Ann and Herbert Daitch Carol Hemley Lynne and Glen Maltz Arnee R. and Walter A. Winshall Sheila Decter Peter Hess Harvey Mamon and Roberta Fern Paula Dickerman Beverly Holzman Lynn and Daniel Mandeau Friend (up to $179) Ruth Diengott Rose Hurwitz Judith Manelis Diana Abramo Caryl Diengott and Evan Pressman Rebecca Incledon Cynthia and William Marcus Amy Abramovitz Angela Donovan and Kathy Bonn McQueen Sherry Israel Takaaki Masuko Diane Abrams Judy and Allen Drachman Daniel Jackson and Claudia Marbach Elaine Matisoff Susan Ansin Miriam and Bob Drukman Iris Jacobs Evelyn and Jay Matloff Ruth and Richard Arnold Varda and Neal Farber Leon Janikian Myckie Mayman G. Ruth and Benjamin Asher Gene Fax Laura Jeppesen and Daniel Stepner Susan Megerman Dov and Shelly Bazes-Bard Jo Ann and Michael Feldstein Jack and Diana Kahn Merck Partnership for Giving Barbara Barry Sharlene and Rob Finkel Phyllis Kantor Lois and Abbott Miller Jules Becker Rosalind and Norman Finkelstein Amy and Marty Kaplan Sheila and Lee Mondshein Joan and Dino Beer Emily Fishman Helen and Robert Kaplan Richard Morrison Sheera Ben-David Sylvia and Philip Fishman Trudy and Barry Karger Esther and Lewis Muhlfelder Linda Bentley Helene and Chuck Fliegler Joan Katz and Arthur Aframe Ellen and David Nesson Susan and Barry Bergman Heather and Richard Forrest Hal Katzman Bonnie Orlin and Abe Morhaim Channah Berkovits Audrey and Jim Foster Bernice Kazis Sheila Packard Orlee and David Berlove Elyse and Sanford Friedman Caroline Kiessling Nancy Parritz Mark Biddelman Rosalind Frim Dan Kirschner Mollie Peddar Robin and Charles Blatt Irene Gaffin Sandra and Burton Klein Raylea and Bernie Pemstein Dianne and Michael Blau Jody Garber Adina Kling and Judah Levine Carol Pineiro Linda and David Blocker Diane and Michael Gardenr Susanne Klingenstein David Pomeranz Sally Braunstein Michelle and Steven Garfinkel Linda Koevary-Gissinger Barbara and Bill Poplack Jane and Howard Breslau Edith Gheewalla Diane and Theodore Korelitz Tiana Prezas Margie and Gil Brodsky Nancy and Dennis Gilbert Karen Kramer Rebecca Redner Susan and Peter Bronk Sharon and Walter Gillett Judy and Les Kramer Sidney Redner

Braun Program.indd 8-9 5/19/16 11:21 AM Sharon S. Regen-Wojnarowicz Alan Teperow and Suzanne Hanser Charna Reichel Deborah Terman Ann and David Reisen Sharon and Bill Torodor Barbara and Mike Richmond Helene and Murray Tuchman Nancy and Scott Richmon Selma Waldstein

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