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Wire was premiered at Philadelphia’s Center for the Performing Arts in February of 1987, two months prior to its performance as the finale of the New Music from Israel at NIU—the same role in which it serves again here. Then a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, Oded Zehavi provided the following program note concerning his chamber ensemble composition: “In this piece, I tried to avoid any kind of harmonic statements, since heterophonic and unison textures came closer to the Jewish sacred chant that I recalled from my childhood. I was surprised, after I first heard the piece, at how many personal Israeli memories I had preserved in this first composition written while living abroad: the language, the synagogue melodies (although there are no actual quotations), the expansive feeling of the desert (the opposite of the intense urban life that I find here), and some oriental sonorities. The form is generated by repetitions of the key motives which repeat throughout.” This is the first commercially released recording.
Oded Zehavi (b. 1961, Jerusalem) studied composition with Mark Kopytman at the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem, and later with George Crumb, Richard Wernick, and Chinary Ung at the University of Pennsylvania, earning his M.M. degree as an Annenberg Fellow. He received his Ph.D. degree at Stony Brook University. Recipient of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Prize, Zehavi’s music (published by IMI) has been heard in such noted venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the Musikverein, and performed by renowned ensembles including the Israel Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, and Kirov Orchestra, under the batons of Zubin Mehta, David Shallon, and Valery Gergiev, among others. An avid arranger/composer of music for dance, theatre, feature film, documentaries and pop/rock, he is Professor of Music at Haifa University.
When the trees on the slopes
glow with a sudden great light
but beingless, perhaps,
And the children slowly climb the path,
their faces shining with a strange brightness . . .
Call out to them quickly, “speak,” “shout,”
like the partridges screaming in the valley
scream,
You see, you know, don’t you?
that they are moving away.
credits
from Composing Israel: The First Three Generations,
released July 23, 2023
Denise Lundine, soprano; Stacey Pearson Stamas, flute; Howard Kaplan, horn; Ruth Richards-Schlarman, harp; G. Allan O’Connor, percussion; Oded Zehavi, piano; Stephen Biagini, cello; H. Stephen Wright, conductor
