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CAROL BARNETT

STRING QUARTET # 1: JEWISH FOLK FANTASIES

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Copyright © 1986 by Carol Barnett, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. Copying or reproducing this publication in whole or in part by any means without permission is a violation of the Federal Copyright Law.

For more information about this piece and other music by Carol Barnett visit www.carolbarnett.net.

CAROL BARNETT

STRING QUARTET #1: JEWISH FOLK FANTASIES

Commissioned by the Groveland String Quartet

Premiered March 31, 1986 by the Groveland String Quartet

at O-Shaughnessy Recital Hall, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul MN

c. 16 minutes

I. T’Filah / Froilach II. Eili, Eili III. Walzer – Du Filozof / Di Gilderne Pave IV. Bim Bom

PROGRAM NOTE: String Quartet #1: Jewish Folk Fantasies was written in 1986. At the time, I was singing in a synagogue choir and playing for Jewish weddings, and thought it would be fun to work further with some of the folk and liturgical songs. The first movement is entirely original material; the other three are meditations on the haunting melody Eli, Eli, two Yiddish waltzes (The Philosopher and The Peacock) and the Hassidic dance tune Bim bom, biribom. The lyrics of the first Yiddish waltz set science (“the philosopher”) against religious magic (“our rabbi”); the second is the lament of a newly married woman living with unfriendly in-laws far away from her home. The nonsense syllables of the Bim bom text are meant to let the singer express whatever he feels at the moment, reflected, I hope, in the varying moods of the last movement.

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