Description

World-Weariness (Desert Wind)
2001 op. 52
Text by Else Lasker-Schüler
Year: 2001
Instrumentation: mezzo soprano and piano
Edition: score and parts
Difficulty: advanced

The Israelian Composer wrote about this: “In musical rhetoric, the image of a desert wind swept me into a strong and extremely onomatopoetic direction, bordering on lyric. I was moved to paint the words and then the colorful sound effects directly emerging from Else Lasker-Schüler’s words: ([ich], wüs]).”