Description
Appeal to the Stars op. 28, 1993/94 (12’)
from Babylonian prayers to the gods of the night
for 6 women singers, who also play 3 alto-recorders, zurne, drums, iron-sticks and palm-tree branches
fue 6520
€ 19,00 (facsimile score)
Sound Research of Women Composers: Contemporary Music (C 279)
WP/UA: November 1995, Gaza/Israel, Ensemble Belcanto Frankfurt. The vocalists, dressed in
white, play recorders and beat with iron bars and with palm tree branches picked in the Jordan
Valley.
A prayer to the gods of night in the very earliest of Semitic languages – Akkadian – accompanied
by exotic instruments. The work combines singing, playing instruments and ritualic movements.
