CHOIR OF ANGELS Come unto Me, come unto Me, Now thy work is done, and rest with Me. All four men soon understood one thing: Meyer was fighting for a message. The Bottom Line: This is atrocious. All of New York's nobility, Jews and Gentiles, were in attendance. By entering your details, you are agreeing to Classical Music terms and conditions.

LEADER OF THE IDOL WORSHIPERS This is a god who has led us in triumph, And from the desert will lead us soon.

THE BEAM Moses, arise. Do ye not see what they do in the towns of Judah and practice in the streets of Jerusalem?

If that be too much, then make me as grass, The grass which the winds caress On the banks of the Jordan. The Eternal Road is an unprecedented work of art, spectacle, and pageantry in the service of a Jewish historical and ideological message. This recording features musical highlights from the original score, representing about one third of the entire work.

The biblical scenes have the form of arias, ensembles and choruses and the part of the rabbi is a hybrid whole with elements from baroque oratorios, motifs from synagogal chant and metric recitatives with organ accompaniment, as in German Reform liturgy. Exclusive music reviews and news, created specifically for classical music listeners, from the serious collector to the inquisitive newcomer. Though the comparison of an artist with a character created by him is generally problematic, many authors have noticed the similarities between Schoenberg and his own Moses, and the musicologist Edward Latham may be right when he goes even a step further: “Like Moses, Schoenberg believed that the idea was unavoidably and intentionally difficult; after Von heute auf morgen he left Aron’s role to Weill.” *Latham, “The Prophet and the Pitchman” 134. JACOB Seven years like days they vanished—. My heart hears my father. Perhaps for Weill that procession led, as it certainly did for Weisgal and maybe by then even for Reinhardt, to Palestine, where the messianic voice amounted to the embodiment of the Zionist ideal.

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JEREMIAH Oh why hast thou chosen me to be thy mouthpiece? Despite the presence of the shofar, in both cases represented by French horns in unison, the differences between the two works are immense. MOSES A stranger am I in a stranger’s land, A stranger among the Egyptians.

Milken Archive recording session, Jesus-Christus-Kirche. CHORUS OF ISRAELITES We halt no more, and we are not afraid, For the Lord our God shall lead us onward To the Land, fare ye well, To the Land of our vision. But it burns, it burns, it burns. CHORUS OF ISRAELITES Hear O Israel! CHOIR Murder him, murder him, stone him to death! But actual Hebrew biblical cantillation motifs and archetypes of Hebrew psalmody are discernible there as well, reflecting Weill’s conscious effort to incorporate authentic traditional Judaic elements within neo-Baroque stylization.

If that be too much, then make me a beast Or even a bird, just a bird let me be, which outspreads its wings over Lebanon. My brother is high in the councils of Egypt; My brother is mighty in Egypt.

Muziektermen Nederlands-Engels, Engels-Nederlands. A biblical morality play that would express the spiritual origin, the mystical history and the eternal destiny of the Jewish people to whom they belonged. And I answered thee with harshness, Speaking cruel words to hear.

MUSIC; 'The Eternal Road,' In Endless Quest of a Stage.

Fresh from that heady success—just as the implications of the Nazi victory in Germany were registering—and convinced of the power of such theater as a vehicle for advocacy and Jewish identity, he envisioned a production of heroic proportions, a musical-dramatic epic that would encompass the basic narrative of the Hebrew Bible in a single evening, implicitly suggesting Zionism’s answer to the perpetual dilemma of the Jewish people’s existence. Chemnitz's company is worthy but provincial, and with well-meaning cuts, the whole experience fell far short of the grandeur of Reinhardt's English-language original. But woe to any man who dare distress The gentle lady in the humble dress, And when she wearies from the sun and heat, Prepare her food, that she may rest and eat. ’Tis Joseph who calls thee.

. . Meyer sent a telegram to Reinhardt: ‘If Hitler doesn't want you, I'll take you’ and explained to the great showman about his plans to stage a large-scale drama ‘as a Jewish response to Hitler's Germany.’ He wanted Reinhardt to join him and help capture this historic moment in Jewish history for the stage.

The Eternal Road recording session, Jesus Christus Kirche. *Cf.

These include several from the so-called missinai tune tradition—seasonal leitmotifs that date in most cases to the medieval Rhineland communities and are associated to this day throughout the Ashkenazi world with specific holy days or occassions on the liturgical calendar. The recording and most of the orchestrations are lost. By this time, the theater of the city of Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt, in the former East Germany) had entered the fray. Wander, set free of all harm, Kurt Weill’s The Eternal Road (1937) was by far his most ambitious theater work, involving more than 250 performers on five stages (as well as a synagogue in the orchestra pit). Scene 23: Moses gives the commandments to the people/the death of Moses, MOSES This, oh my folk, this is the book, The book of commandment.sh’ma yisra’el! Norman Bel Geddes's five-level set was so lavish that it spilled into the orchestra pit.

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it will take is an impresario brave and clever enough to ignore the legacy of Weisgal's bankruptcy and to transcend my own failed aspirations. BOAZ Oh, any youth, however deep his dreaming, Could love thee for the beauty from thee streaming. The “strong arm” refers to Exod.

Not easily categorized, The Eternal Road artfully combines elements of Bach’s Passions with Weill’s Broadway shows to form a new type of pageant–sort of a St. Matthew Passion meets Street Scene. The five-tiered stage (actually five stages, a full acre in size) allowed for the simultaneous viewing of the synagogue interior and the biblical reenactments. Berlin, Germany.

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On some levels Werfel was an understandable nominee, not only for his known humanistic leanings and Expressionist poetry, but also because of his acknowledged affinity for biblical subjects.

Neither the press nor the public appeared to have picked up on that message, almost out of political avoidance, and the Zionist implications appear to have been ignored altogether. Hast Thou not written in Thine own decrees: “The laborers’ hire pay thou the same day, Lest for his reward the heart in him famish?” And I, who labored on Thy commands, I go to my sleep unrewarded. RABBI And Moses cut down the Egyptian, And covered him with sand.

CHORUS OF ISRAELITES Wandering desert sand, wailing of winds... MOSES Hold, Hold!

. Oh, wherefore did I not die at her breast?

Only about a third of the score is presented, and the solo roles, reduced to 20, are sung by seven singers. Chapter 4.16. Weill incorporated extensive Jewish liturgical material: his rabbinical family dated to the 13th century. O Lord, why on me has the burden been laid? .

The first night was a triumph, but the critics reviewed only the first two (or possibly three) acts, rushing off to meet their deadlines for the next day's papers. So bring him tribute amid rejoicing, In circling dance and playing of harps. *Latham, “The Prophet and the Pitchman” 134. RABBI And Moses died then, the true servant, And no man knows until this day The place where his grave is laid. ...  Continue Reading, You will want at least six minutes of quiet, uninterrupted listening time and space in order to full...  Continue Reading, Because Fritz Reiner’s reputation primarily rests with his “golden age” recorded legacy as the...  Continue Reading, The works of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) are rarely played despite the fact that she was the first woman to have an opera, Der Wald, performed at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1903. Others, some there for the first time and in shock at the sudden unprovoked attack, precipitate debates. 1ST AND 2ND ANGELS Man Moses, the Angel of Death! BOAZ (addressing a reaper) God be with you. But ye blasphemed Him, and were rebellious, Were disobedient and lacking in faith. In a “Beam of Light” the voice of God sounds to a slow variant of the shofar blast above the drone D/A, and enters into a dialogue with Moses: “Break not in on my wrath . For I am a horror on streets and alleys, A jeering for children from house to house. ''THE ETERNAL ROAD,'' Max Reinhardt's lavish pageant of Jewish biblical history and seemingly timeless persecution, was first staged in 1937 and has fascinated conductors and impresarios ever since.

Scene 40: After the destruction of the temple. In sorrow we strewed the seed in earth, We gather the sheaves in rejoicing, Performers: I blot out all those who sin . So bring him tribute amid rejoicing, In circling dance and playing of harps. Another one, assigned to the Festival of Shavuot, is heard in repeated orchestral strains throughout desert scenes and at Sinai. Werfel conceived his play as a modern incarnation of a passion or biblical morality play, which he titled Der Weg der Verheissung (lit., The Road of Promise, although no translation accurately conveys its mystical or religious connotations).

See where their armies march, host upon host.



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