Chamber Music Work of the Day, Installment 3:
"Fanfare, Tango and Fughetta on Hebrew Themes"
for
Brass Quintet and optional Timpani
(2008)
Commissioned by Carolina Brass in 2008, the Hebrew themes used in "Fanfare, Tango and Fughetta on Hebrew Themes" are Fanfare: “The soul of every living being shall bless Your Name”, Tango: “When Israel went forth from Egypt”, Fughetta: “How goodly are your tents, O Jacob”. This work was subsequently premiered and performed numerous times by Carolina Brass, and was published by ECS Publishing Group in 2016 under Catalog No. 7.0681. "Fanfare, Tango and Fughetta on Hebrew Themes" has since received numerous performances by brass quintets around the world, including by the Organum Brass Quintet of Spain.
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Follow the next URL to listen to a live performance of "Fanfare, Tango and Fughetta on Hebrew Themes" by Carolina Brass from March 25, 2012 performed without timpani.
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Editorial: A plea to musicians of all kinds: PERFORM JEWISH-CENTRIC MUSIC!
So much of Jewish-centric music has been and continues to be ignored, or worse, boycotted, today because of the crazy, divisive, upside-down times in which we live. A rich treasure-trove of Jewish-centric music exists.
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Contact me for more programming ideas about my Jewish-centric music, and the music of countless other composers and arrangers, who include both Jews and Gentiles. I will be happy to help point you in whatever direction I am able.
If you are truly devoted to diversity, then you simply cannot arbitrarily exclude the music of a culture that is over 3500 years old because of geopolitics; to do so is the height of hypocrisy. Embrace and perform Jewish music as you would the music of any other culture.
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Thank you for your time and attention.
Stanley M. Hoffman, PhD
Biography Published in Grove Music Online (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford University Press)
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