flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano and electronics
Audio
Performed by: Meitar Ensemble, Yuval Zorn (conductor) (2018)
Video
Program Note
As a child, my father Yehuda Elkana cherished a small collection of glass churches. When he and his parents were deported to Auschwitz in 1944, his father forbade him to bring them along. This memory became the starting point for Glass Churches, the first musical reflection on his life. The work combines six instrumental parts with live electronics, weaving them together with archival recordings of my father’s voice as he recounts his childhood.
Commissioned by the Israeli Music Festival and originally written for the Meitar Ensemble, Glass Churches was conceived for instrumentalists, electronics, and video. It later became a study and preparation for my larger work Que sais-je?, in which I continued to explore my father’s story and its resonance.
Performances
24 Oct 2020 Meitar Ensemble Tel Aviv Museum
17 Sep 2018 Ensemble Meitar Museum of Art Tel Aviv
