果冻传媒

All the trees of paradise have changed from
their widows� garb and budded. Friends are glad
and gay to see them in their splendid robe.
Music by Rabbi Abi Weber (RS �21), Associate Rabbi, Temple Beth Zion Beth Israel

One Shabbat, walking home through Central Park, I was stopped in my tracks by three bright pink trees,
flowering from every inch of every branch. Truly, the trees had changed their widows� garb and donned
splendid robes! Pausing, I saw person after person, group after group, similarly reveling in these delightful trees.

This feeling of delight is at the core of Neird v橩harkom, a perfect poem for Passover. 淐rocus and lavender have sprouted in my garden . . . myrtle has blossomed and bloomed潝all is right with the world. My melody攚hich tries to capture the joy emanating from each line攚as inspired by a Tuareg rock band from northern Mali and
Algeria, where the piyyut mysterious author, Nahum, may have spent time.

淒ove and Swallow . . . Open their beaks and
coo. There they praise my maker might, one in
laughter, one in song.�
Music by Hazzan Eliana Kissner (CS �21), Cantor,
Oheb Shalom

Neird v橩harkom juxtaposes the total sensory appreciation of the present (渃rocus and lavender have sprouted in my garden�) with the
longing for future redemption (淒ew to bring rest to the burdened ones�). In this setting (one of two on
this album), I tried to express that tension musically,
drawing inspiration from an Arabic musical mode called 渒urd,� which is itself associated with love and longing. Rather than the usual repeated verses and refrain, this setting offers a series of melodic vignettes meant to capture the experience of walking through a garden, appreciating an individual flower or plant for a fleeting moment, and
then moving on.