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I. Flee as a Bird to Your Mountain II. Tefilat HaDerech III. Shehecheyanu IV. Anim Zemirot (For IYB 5​/​15​/​2016)

from Limited Edition: Baby You Are The Protagonist EP (Stories from the Cello Train) by Emily Hope Price

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Bonus - Recorded at Aubergine, NYC, April 2016. Tracks recorded by Brian Viglione. Performed, composed, mixed, produced by Emily Hope Price

From a post on Sept. 2016:

"This is a compositional work in progress in movements incorporating a scripture from Psalms and three Jewish prayers and words from them. As you know, I understand very little about them, but I looked for ones that spoke to me; ones that told me a story of how things are right now. They are not literal quotes as you will recognize them, but interpretations…

Introduction (Motif)

Flee as a bird to your mountain, Psalms 11:1 (Theme)
Tefilat HaDerech – rescue us from the hand of every foe, ambush along the way, and from all manner of punishments that assemble to come to earth
Shehecheyanu – who has granted us life, sustained us and enabled us to reach this occasion.
Anim Zemirot – I shall sing sweet songs (Theme)

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Motif: Sonar pings – the use of sound transmission to navigate, communicate with, or find objects (most often in water). The searching.

1. Theme: “Flee as a bird to your mountain" - Flee: “to run away from a place or situation of danger.”

At the time I started this piece, I just happened to be revisiting some old repertoire: Bloch’s Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra. I was a freshman in college when my teacher showed me this piece. I was hooked immediately. It’s a stunning and very difficult piece. I learned a bit of it and left it, so it haunts me a little (as does Ysaÿe’s Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 28), so I went back to it. There’s a tiny quote of it in the theme.

2. Move. Travel very far. So far that you will wear down skin on feet. There will be ghosts where you are going (brief return of the theme). It will be mysterious, vast, and maybe even uncomfortable for a long time. But not forever, and it will be alright.

3. Gratitude. When you have survived, what will you do? Tell the stories. There is an electric surge in this moment that is felt throughout because of where you have been. Then a detection of an underpinning that was once small that grew big and then small again until it became just a whisper. But it is still there. It is now a thing that makes up who you are until you are gone into the earth.

4. Finish. After all you can do and all you have done, what is left? This is it. We are as we began: “I shall sing sweet songs.” It is melancholy in nature, true, but have hope: our endings are not so often happy, but they are lived. They were loved. They are loved."

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from Limited Edition: Baby You Are The Protagonist EP (Stories from the Cello Train), released June 19, 2017

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Emily Hope Price New York, New York

Emily Hope Price a New York-based freelance cellist, singer, songwriter, film composer, arranger, performer, writer and illustrator. Formerly of the indie band Pearl and the Beard, releasing 5 albums of work. She is an active solo performer, coach, and freelancer in NYC. ... more

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