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The Gown of Night (performed in Arabic) is an electronic collage featuring the voices of approximately 20 sixth-grade schoolchildren from Rahat, recorded at the Beer Sheva Conservatory and edited in the Tel Aviv studio of engineer Yaakov Aviram. The distinctive vocal timbre and guttural enunciation serves as a purely musical element. From a mist of whispers suggesting night in the desert, voices emerge and become ever louder until a single girl’s clear voice is heard in full daylight. First released on Opus One Records (158; 1992), this work received first prize in the ACREQ Third International Électro-Clip Competition (Montreal, 1993) and is one of two Tsippi Fleischer works selected by the Israel Broadcasting Authority to represent Israel at the 1989 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. The graphic score can be viewed on the composer’s website.
Tsippi Fleischer (b. 1946, Haifa) earned degrees in music (Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music, Levinsky College of Education, and NYU); language, literature, and history (Tel Aviv University); and a Ph.D. degree in Musicology (Bar Ilan University). Her teachers included composers György Kurtág, Noam Sheriff, Mendi Rodan, Yitzhak Sadai, Haim Alexander, and musicologists Jan LaRue and Leonard Ratner. Fleischer’s solo, chamber, orchestral, stage, and electroacoustic works are frequently heard in Israel and abroad, and appear on many commercially released recordings. She has received numerous awards in Israel (including the ACUM Prize for lifetime achievement and the Prime Minister’s Prize) and in Finland, France, Germany, and the U.S. The National Library of Israel’s Tsippi Fleischer Archive includes information concerning the composer’s long involvement in music education and Hebrew song research.
lyrics
THE GOWN OF NIGHT
Muhammad Ghana’im
The gown of night
Envelops the desert
Engulfing tent and well
From the boundaries of night
The howling of jackals descends
To raise the dawn
