Choral Piece of the Day, Installment 53: "Kindle the Taper," a Chanukah Fanfare for SATB Chorus & Piano, or optional Trumpet, Horn, Cymbals, & Harp (2020); Text by Emma Lazarus.

Choral Piece of the Day, Installment 53:

"Kindle the Taper" a Chanukah Fanfare for SATB Chorus and Piano,

or optional Trumpet in B-flat, Horn in F, Crash Cymbals, and Harp (2020);

Text by Emma Lazarus.

TEXT

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star

ablaze on evening’s forehead o’er the earth,

and add each night a luster till afar

an eight-fold splendor shine above thy (your) hearth.

Clash, Israel, the cymbals, touch the lyre,

blow the brass trumpet and the harsh-tongued horn;

chant psalms of victory till the heart take fire,

the Maccabean spirit leap new-born.

—Emma Lazarus; modernization by Stanley M. Hoffman

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ECS PUBLISHING GROUP ORDERING INFORMATION

Piano/Choral Score: Catalog No. 8974.

Follow the next URL to see a partial PDF sample of the score, listen to a demo recording, or to purchase performance copies.

https://www.ecspublishing.com/kindle-the-taper.html

Downloadable Piano/Choral Score: Catalog No. file_8974-E.

*Downloadable choral octavo minimum order quantity is 6.

Full Score: Catalog No. 8974A.

Downloadable Full Score: Catalog No. file_8974A-E.

Instrumental Parts: Catalog No. 8974B.

Downloadable Instrumental Parts: Catalog No. file_8974B-E.

Downloadable Accompaniment Tracks for 1-50 singers: Catalog No. file_8974-CTE.

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RECORDING AND VIDEO

Follow this link https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/f3e5c9_f349560b4cfd4a56b00e639b2099c564.mp3 to hear a demo audio track of the version with piano accompaniment made by the awesome musicians at https://choraltracks.com.

Follow this link https://youtu.be/lhzxki8TTY8?si=PktMV7j-736LNa6u to view the publisher's scrolling score video for the version with piano accompaniment made using the same demo audio track.

Follow this link https://youtu.be/WpRok6AuNBk?si=tvLqG4OcKgqh1-9s to view the composer's scrolling score video for the version with Trumpet in B-flat, Horn in F, Crash Cymbals, and Harp made using the NotePerformer audio engine plugin made for the Sibelius Ultimate music engraving program. Please let me know if you have a good live performance of this version so that I can post it on my website and on YouTube. Thank you.

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A plea to choral directors, performing ensembles, and performers 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.

Explore creative programming options from the time of the Renaissance through the music of today. Many reliable databases of sacred and secular Jewish-centric music exist.

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.

Thank you for your time and attention. Be well.