Be'eretz Sin
בארץ סין
Year: 2021 op.66
Duration: 9 minutes
Publisher:
AMEL•MUSIC
Text by: Leah Goldberg לאה גולדברג
Instrumentation
voice, 3 electric-guitars and percussion
Program Note
In the late 1950s, as a student in Jerusalem, my mother occasionally visited Leah Goldberg at her home after being acquainted by a mutual friend. On one of these occasions, mother told Leah Goldberg that she remembers reading, in a children's newspaper, and loving the poem "In the Land of China" and asked to read it again. On her next visit, Leah Goldberg gave her the poem typewritten on her typing machine and dedicated especially for her. When I was a child my mother used to read it to me and so did I to my own children.
When my trio "Triple Helix" was invited to give a concert together with soprano Merav Eldan at the 2021 Israel Music Festival, I decided to set this poem to music to be preformed by the four of us.
The composition is divided into 6 parts that follow the narrative of the poem.
