Prayer
For Horn and Instruments
by Shulamit Ran
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music 4 Timpani, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Clarinet in Bb, Horn

SKU: PR.114406380

For Horn and Instruments. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 9+3+4+4+3+2 pages. Duration 6 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40638. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114406380).

UPC: 680160010110.

  Prayer is a short work written in honor of Paul Fromm's seventy-fifth birthday as part of a bouquet of compositions especially composed for the occasion and presented in a concert commemorating the event on January 22, 1982, by the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago, Ralph Shapey, music director.   My notes for that evening read: I asked myself--how shall I celebrate this special day? The answer--compose a prayer. A wordless one... the horn is my voice. Bass clarinet, bassoon, and timpani form a low choir supporting, commenting, punctuating. From their midst the clarinet takes flight. In my mind, it assumes the role of the innocent village boy whose whistle, according to an old Jewish tale, opened the gates of heaven.  .