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Vocal(/Choral) Composition of the Day, Installment 7: "Mi y'maleil" (Who can recount), a Chanukah Composition for Solo Voice (or SATB Chorus) and Piano or Chamber Orchestra (2004)

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Vocal(/Choral) Composition of the Day, Installment 7: "Mi y'maleil" (Who can recount),

a Chanukah Composition

for

Solo Voice (or SATB Chorus) and Piano (or Chamber Orchestra)

(2004)


As I used to say during my time as Editor at ECS Publishing Group when it was under its previous ownership from 1998-2012 (having remained Editor there until 2021), "It's always Christmas and Chanukah", it seemed that I used to edit music for the holiday season year round. So vocalists, and orchestra conductors, (and choral directors), its program planning time for December 2025!


Set in Hebrew and English, "Mi y'maleil" (Who can recount) is original setting of a traditional Chanukah text; the English translation is my own. I am mainly advertising the neglected version of this piece for solo voice and piano or orchestra today, ECS Publishing Group Catalog No. 6461. Follow the next link to visit the publisher's product page for this version.


The version for SATB chorus and piano, Catalog No. 6460, is already a holiday favorite. Follow the next link to visit the publisher's product page for that version.


Although the publisher does not advertise the piece this way, the full score for SATB chorus and chamber orchestra also works perfectly well with solo voice.​ The full score is Catalog No. 8155, and the parts are Catalog No. 8156.

Follow the next link to view a high quality synthesized scrolling score music video of the version of "Mi y'maleil" for SATB chorus (or solo voice) and chamber orchestra on my YouTube channel which I created to encourage live performances.


Follow the next link to view a music video I created to publicize the version for SATB chorus and piano. The performance is by The Philovox Ensemble, Jennifer Lester, conductor, Andrew Goodridge, piano.


Music: © Copyright 2005 by Ione Press, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group.

www.ecspublishing.com All rights reserved. Used by permission.


I hope you enjoy "Mi y'maleil". Thank you for your time and attention.

—

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.


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.

​—

Stanley M. Hoffman, PhD

Link to my website: https://www.stanleymhoffman.com


Biography Published in Grove Music Online (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford University Press)

https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/browse?btog=chap&pageSize=20&sort=titlesort&subSite=grovemusic&t=music_People%3A18&t0=music_Topics%3A78


The "Stanley M. Hoffman Special Collection" was established at The Berklee College of Music Library Archive in January 2025. It will take whatever time is necessary for the archive to catalog my collection and make it available to the public.



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