FOR SUM Solo Vocal Work

O Absalom

Composition date: 2015

Text: Words from the Hebrew Bible (The Book of Samuel)

Instrumentation: countertenor and electronics

Length: 7 minutes

Premiere:

Date: April 2015

Venue: Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University

Performers: Aryeh Nussbaum-Cohen

Piece Description: 

And the King was moved and went up to the chamber above the gate and wept; and as he went, thus he said:

O my son, Absolom, my son, my son Absolom!

Would I had died for thee,

O Absalom, my son, my son!

 
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