Young Israel Comp6sers Forming
Musical. Link Between East and West
By PETER GRADENWITZ
(Copyright, 1953, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
It is the young artists who in-
variably determine a country's
outlook in the arts; the older
Alen are the leaders and teach-
ers, but the younger ones show
where the trends are leading.
This fact is even more typical
in the. development in Israel of
art and music, for the leader-
teachers are still products of
European education a n d en-
vironment while the younger
men were born, or artistically
bred, in Eretz Israel.
And what is more important
still, they have Hebrew as their
mother tongue, a language of
oriental character and inflexion
—the sounds and the music of
which are fundamentally dif-
ferent from English, German,
Russian, French, even Yiddish.
The undisputed master of a
Hebrew musical language among
the younger composers of Israel
is actually in his thirties. He is
Mordecai Seter (Starominsky),
whose Sabbath Cantata for solo,
chorus a n d string orchestra,
written to Psalm texts and pas-
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Friday, March 27, 1953
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sages froth the "Song of Songs,"
counts among the most striking-
ly original works created in
modern Israel.
Seter has gone back for his
Florist
style to medieval techniques of
composition, as he knows that
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Jerusalem. But the effect of his
music is not archaic at all and
it has stirred musicians and
audiences wherever it has been
heard.
Seter was born in 1916, but
the real "musical youth" of Is-
rael composers are about 10
years his junior. Three of them
have already made a name for
themselves abroad as well as in
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Israel, while another is a slowly
rising star on the musical fir-
mament.
Robert Starer, born 1924, has
for the last few years been a
resident of the United States,
where some of his music has
been published by leading firms.
His personal as well as his stylis-
tic contact with the land he re-
gards as his permanent home,
Israel, has never ceased, and he
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In addition to a group of He-
brew songs and a "Concertino
for two voices or instruments
with violin and piano" to He-
brew and Latin -words, he has
recently completed a Cantata
based on Kohelet, parts of which
will be performed at a Juilliard
School concert in September,
and which in its entirety will
probably be given in Israel soon.
Two other young composers
have visited the States on grants
made by the ESCO Foundation
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of New York and partly as
guests of the International In-
stitute of Education. They are
Ben-Zion Orgad and Yehoshua
Lakner.
Lakner, born 1924, has written
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only a few works: a series of
dances for piano has frequently
been performed, and so has his
only published work, the Sonata
for Flute and Piano. His most
recent work is a Sextet for wind
instruments and piano which
was given a tryout at last sum-
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mer's session at the Berkshire
Music Center, which Lakner at-
tended as a member of Aaron
Copland's composition classes.
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Lakner's is a personal instru-
mental style of much affinity
with oriental singing and play-
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way to maturity and perfection.
HENRY FORSTER
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