Yearning
For Violin And String Orchestra
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SKU: PR.416415790
For Violin And String Orchestra. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 1995. Duration 8 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #416-41579. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.416415790).UPC: 680160637911. 9x12 inches.
When violinist Edna Michell first spoke to me about the theme of her project with the late Lord Yehudi Menuhin, I had already begun work on my opera based on S. Ansky's great early 20th-century play Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk). Composing in a romance-type piece about love, beauty and humanity, as Edna suggested, is a problematic proposition; but I found myself smitten with the idea of trying to create a short piece that would be expressive of the search, the yearning, longing desire for such elusive qualities. In The Dybbuk, Khonnon yearns in vain for his beloved, Leya. He dies when it becomes clear that his love is to remain unrequited. Khonnon's death is only the first step in the journey to fulfill the great longing of the doomed would-be lovers. I used a phrase out of Khonnon's opening soliloquy as a compositional point of departure, though once I began to write, Yearning took on a life of its own. The work had its first public performance in New York City in August 1996 as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. It is dedicated to Edna Michell and her dream. --Shulamit Ran.