Panufnik: Sim Shalom
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- Composer: Roxanna Panufnik (1968-)
- Format: Vocal Score
- Instrumentation: Organ, SATB Choir
- Work: Sim Shalom
- Work Language: Hebrew (Transliteration)
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- Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches
Description
"Having already had a wonderful collaboration with the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, I was very excited when their Director of Music, Cathy Heller Jones, approached me with a request to set this beautiful prayer for peace. Although the prayer is nearly 2,000 years old, its sentiments are needed now, more than ever.
I use the first two lines as a refrain, which has a strong Jewish modal feel about it. Starting low and in a Minor harmony, it rises and becomes more Major, with an entreaty for hope. Cathy and I share Polish roots, so she asked me to bring that into the musical mix. for the two ‘verses', I have used a common Polish mode, in the right hand of the organ, which has a raised fourth and-flattened seventh.
The setting finishes with a passionate and optimistic C Major chord, in ardent hope that our prayer is heard.
The piece is dedicated to the respective commissioners' parents – to Rebecca Tennen and Seymour Roberts for Cathy Heller Jones, and to Geoff and Patricia Head for Sue Head.
I am hugely grateful to Cathy Heller Jones and Sue Head for this commission and to Senior Rabbi Alexandra Wright for very patiently recording the Hebrew text and supplying a word-for-word translation."
---Roxanna Panufnik, 30 April 2024
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Panufnik: Sim Shalom
