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Nonsense Songs Cycle 2008:
Nonsense Songs Cycle by Lewis Carroll.
Music by Rafi Kadishson - Israel Prime Minister's Award winner 2008
Hebrew translation by Rina Litvin
Keren Hadar-Soprano
Alon Reuven-French horn
Michael Melzer-Flute
Avshalom Sarid-Viola
Maya Belsizman - Cello
Ido Azrad - Clarinet
Gilad Efrat - Bass.
This piece premiered on the Voice of Music in the Upper Galilee Festival in summer 2008 and later on was performed in the Israel Music Celebration. It was performed in 2009 with the Israel Camerata, Jerusalem.
Media |
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
Wow! wow! wow!
I speak severely to my boy,
I beat him when he sneezes;
For he can thoroughly enjoy
The pepper when he pleases!
Wow! wow! wow!
Composer Rafi Kadishson on this piece:
It seems to me that the first impulse to compose nonsense songs came to me from the will to rest a little from lyrical/dramatic texts loaded with feelings and meanings, and have some fun.
Lewis Carroll's songs, exceptionally translated by Rina Litvin,
have a tremendous inner music that emerges from the fact that in nonsense, the sound of the word is more important than its content (or lack of content).
This piece was written for and dedicated to Keren Hadar, whose voice, stage, and musical personality inspired me while composing."
Press |
…later on we heard Nonsense song cycle by Lewis Carroll, with the excellent translation of Rina Litvin and Keren Hadar's singing, who expressed with great talent the combination of the sharp text and Kadishson's music 
Danny Bloch, Radio Channel 2, 13.1.09
