From An Ardent Lover To A Lady (text by Alexander Harkavy)

2019
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Alexander Harkavy

instrumentation

Voice and Piano

duration

3'

commissioned by

Pascal Le Boeuf

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This work was commissioned by Pascal Le Boeuf in honor of his and Molly Herron’s anniversary on November 16, 2019. The text is a love letter from Alexander Harkavy’s 1902 Amerikikanisher brifen-shteler (American Letter Writer), a bilingual letter writing manual for Yiddish speaking Jewish immigrants, with letters in English and Yiddish. The Yiddish in Harkavy’s book reflects spelling and dialect variations, as well as word borrowing which was commonplace in pre-standardized Yiddish. To make the text easier to understand and work with it has been gently adapted and updated to standard modern Yiddish by the composer.

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From An Ardent Lover To A Lady (text by Alexander Harkavy)

2019
/
Songs
Purchase Score
duration

3'

instrumentation

Voice and Piano

premiered by

commissioned by

Pascal Le Boeuf

From An Ardent Lover To A Lady (text by Alexander Harkavy)

This work was commissioned by Pascal Le Boeuf in honor of his and Molly Herron’s anniversary on November 16, 2019. The text is a love letter from Alexander Harkavy’s 1902 Amerikikanisher brifen-shteler (American Letter Writer), a bilingual letter writing manual for Yiddish speaking Jewish immigrants, with letters in English and Yiddish. The Yiddish in Harkavy’s book reflects spelling and dialect variations, as well as word borrowing which was commonplace in pre-standardized Yiddish. To make the text easier to understand and work with it has been gently adapted and updated to standard modern Yiddish by the composer.

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