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By the Rivers of Babylon
for reed quintet
2023 • chamber music
nonesuch reed quintet
Completion Year
2023
Scored for
reed quintet
Duration
ca. 3' 30"
Source Text
Psalm 137:1-3
א עַל נַהֲרוֹת, בָּבֶל--שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ, גַּם-בָּכִינוּ: בְּזָכְרֵנוּ, אֶת-צִיּוֹן.
ב עַל-עֲרָבִים בְּתוֹכָהּ-- תָּלִינוּ, כִּנֹּרוֹתֵינוּ.
ג כִּי שָׁם שְׁאֵלוּנוּ שׁוֹבֵינוּ, דִּבְרֵי-שִׁיר-- וְתוֹלָלֵינוּ שִׂמְחָה:
שִׁירוּ לָנוּ, מִשִּׁיר צִיּוֹן.
By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat and also wept,
When we remembered Zion.
Upon the willows in the midst of it
We hung our lyres.
For there our captors asked us about the words of a song,
And our tormentors asked joyfully, saying,
“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.”