Numa Emek

Instrumentation: Chamber Orhcestra
Year of composition: 2024
Duration: 11 minutes
Commission: Keren Kagarlitsky
Funding: Stadt Wien Kultur

Premiere:
Keren Kagarlitsky & Die Wiener Volksoper @ Wiener Konzerthaus
01.10.24

"Numa Emek" is an autobiographical work about living abroad during wartime at home. It is a retrospective, a confrontation with childhood memories. With „Shir HaEmek“. My anthem. The Zionist hymn that I was raised on. Which I sang in school and in the scouts, which I played in the synagogue, and at memorial ceremonies – back in the days when I wore a uniform, was a soldier, stood guard.