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- Holiday Greetings Passover Greetings MUSKOVITZ PERSHIN UNION TIRE COMPANY Plumbing and Heating Contractors 3140 GRAND RIVER 2955 W. DAVISON TO. 8-8870 FA. 1-1010 Passover Greetings Holiday Greetings FEDERAL ALLOYS CORP. Morris Friedman & Sons Plumbing and Heating Contractor 24605 John R, Hazel Park 924 Leland Office LI. 4-2454 TR. 1-1276 . Res. VE. 8-5355 Holiday Greetings from the UNITED SHIRT DISTRIBUTORS 1927 MICHIGAN AVE. VERY BEST WISHES FOR A Joyous PASSOVER 42—THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 27, 1953 Greetings for Passover 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 TR. 5-4050 101 Fisher Bldg. the beginnings of the gfeat European music were rooted in the ancient Temple chant of .1!11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111_ =- 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 WA. 1-8180 7043 E. Palmer 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 Tailors is expected in Israel during this summer. WO. 2-6216 408 David Whitney Bldg. 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 UN. 1-6446 7645 W. McNichols 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 Holiday Greetings 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. 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