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Death of Dan Pagis received its world premiere during the 1987 New Music from Israel concert at Northern Illinois University (NIU). This is the first commercially released recording. The score Abel Ehrlich provided for the occasion is held in the Rare Books and Special Collections of the NIU Founders Library. The composer wrote: “During the last two years I composed a lot of poems and ‘Prosepoems’ by Dan Pagis. And I always postponed to tell him about it – thinking: ‘There is a lot of time for it.’ There was not. He never heard any music I wrote on his texts, though we received together a prize for poetry and music by ACUM two or three years ago.” ACUM is the Israeli performing rights organization that administers the copyrights of authors, composers, and music publishers in Israel.
Abel Ehrlich (1915-2003) was born in Cranz, East Prussia (now Russia) and as a child studied violin and began composing. In 1934, he fled from Nazi Germany to Yugoslavia and, when forced as a Jew to leave there, briefly to Albania. After immigrating to Israel in 1939, Ehrlich continued his studies including composition with Shlomo Rosovsky. He taught at the Israel Conservatory, the Rubin Academies in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan University, and the Oranim College. Ehrlich’s interest in Arabic and Eastern Music inspired his best-known work, Bashrav for solo violin (1953). In 1972, he was awarded the Alte Kirche Foundation Prize (Boswil, Switzerland) for his composition, ARPMUSIC. Ehrlich also received the ACUM Prize (eight times), the Liberson Prize (3 times), Prime Minister’s Prize, and the Israel Prize. Many of Ehrlich’s more than 3,500 works (according to composer Yuval Shaked) are published by IMC and IMI.
