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    Five Hebrew Love Songs

  • Samantha Kamp: Your music rests in a special part of my soul. It has guided me through my journey with music. The music that you compose is just magical, astonishing in fact. I deeply commend you for your amazing works. My choir is performing "Five Hebrew Love Songs" the SSA arrangement (All girls school) and I have
  • Alicia Mahon: I just ordered these for solo soprano and hope to perform them at my recital in the fall! I can not WAIT to begin rehearsing them! I just participated in the Sing with Eric at Carnegie Hall, and these were by far my favorite! :)
  • Sarah: The violin part is extremely small in the solo version. Is there a "Whitacre-approved" version of the violin score? There are several that google gives back, but I'd like to know what I'm going to get before I spend more money. Not having a separate violin part is very annoying, Mr. Whitacre.
  • Peggy Walt: Hello there from Halifax, Nova Scotia! We are performing 5 Hebrew Love Songs (SSA version) and we would like to know if we can obtain a copy of the songs in Hebrew (not transliteration)? We have a couple of Hebrew speakers who are helping us with pronunciation, and they've asked for that.
  • Cecile Astruc: Hello M. Witacre, excuse me for the english, I am french and i don't speak english verry well. I've recently discovered and I first loved your concept of virtual choir. Then I found your other creations and your 5 Hebrew love songs. I run a small choir in France and I wanted to order the partition
  • Trevor Kaminski: Hey Mr. Whitacre. To be honest, the first time I heard this piece, I didn't care for it all that much. Now, I shed a tear every time I listen to it. It totally grew on me. The "Eyze Shelleg!" movement is so haunting. It captures that somber and quiet feeling the environment has on
  • Sarah: I am performing these songs for my senior recital in April-- and I am so excited! I'm the only Jew at a Baptist university smack dab in the Bible belt, so it'll be nice to share some of my own background and language with everyone. I did have a different sort of idea, though: would
  • Aubrey: Because it cannot be said enough of all of your pieces, but especially of the Five Hebrew Love Songs (which I am hoping to perform for a late-summer recital) : extraordinary, beautiful work. Yevarekh otkha ha-shem.
  • Steffen: Really adorable pieces! But did they get used for the soundtrack of "Age of Empires"? When playing the game it sounds exactly the same..
  • Britlin L.: Eyze Shelleg is my favorite of the five, and the story behind it that I heard for the first time at Lincoln Center made it even more beautiful. Thank you for this piece, Eric.
  • Stacey: I love this piece! All 5 songs are great! My 8th grade chorus class is doing " Five Hebrew Love Songs'' for our spring concert! (:
  • MGB: Eric, My choir bought the Hebrew Love songs with piano reduction and the parts for strings, but a conductor's score with quartet-acc wasn't included. Is that correct? In that case: where can I get a conductor's score? I hope you're willing to answer. Excuse me for my English, it's not my native tongue.
  • Sharon: Attended the master chorale of flagstaff performance of the Hebrew love songs and was in tears the entire time. It was stunning. Thank you for sharing that incredible creation.
  • Matt: I would love some help on the harmonics on the 1st and 2nd violin parts in Ezye Sheleg. It appears to me (and my students) that there is some error. Volin can't play a natural harmonic on C or G can they? Any suggestions would be much apprieciated!
  • Kristen: Five beautiful songs written and set by two amazingly talented people. I quite enjoyed the video of Hila reading the poems in Hebrew - you two are so cute together! Eric, I quite like it that you have written posts explaining a bit of the story behind each song - I find, as a listener,
  • Bryan: any chance you will have a baritone part for this? Longwood University's Camerata Singers are performing this and I would really love to use this as a solo piece for future use.
  • Sara: "Wow, never knew dissonance could be so restful!" -> my first thought ever about your music (A Boy and A Girl) :) You know, Mr Whitacre, you can win over people just by letting them listen to these beauties, but you can totally exhilarate them by letting them sing it! As singer you can put
  • Rebecca McKay: Sounds beautiful! Amazing moving work I was hoping to do these for my grad recital and I was wondering if there is a way to get IPA for the hebrew text? If it is in the score that would be fantastic Once again you are a ridiculous talented couple. All the best in your future
  • Eric: Thanks, Marie, and good luck with your performance!
  • Marie: Can do-- I'll transcribe what needs to be done. (Similar thing happened recently to a friend's choral work-- something was "lost [or in his case, repeated] in translation") No worries. Thanks again.