Publisher
Sikorski
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Composer's Notes
"'T’filah' (Hebrew: Prayer) for violin solo was written in January 1996.
'T’filah' is a reaction to the tragedy of the Holocaust. I find the sound of unaccompanied violin vulnerable yet overwhelming.
A prayer is a dramatic union between a human being and his true self, between one's soul and the eternal forces connected to it.
To pray means to ask questions. What is the answer? Are there such things as answers? Henryk Szeryng once said:
‘To breath is to want
To want is to get
To get is to give,
To give is to live,
To live is to love.’
Isn't this magic circle of words the sacred formula to all the prayers and human longing for eternal harmony?”
(Lera Auerbach)
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