Lucas Richman


Hanukkah Festival Overture

Instrumentation3222 4331 Timp+2, Hp, strings
Length6:30 (minutes)
DifficultyFor professional orchestras to very fine youth orchestra
CommentsPerfect for Winter Holiday Concerts (Pops and Young Peoples')
SourcesFor perusal scores, tapes and information on this work and the many other works that LeDor Music handles for Young Peoples Concerts, Pops and Classical Series, contact: LeDor Music toll free: (888) 624-9094 18653 Ventura Blvd., Suite 118 Tarzana, CA 91356 lucasr@earthlink.net
ExtrasThe Pacific Symphony Orchestra commissioned this work in 1994. It incorporates six specific tunes that either speak of the miracle of the oil that burned seven days longer than it should have or that illustrate the manner in which the holiday is celebrated today. Hanukkah, O Hanukkah, S?vivon (Hebrew for dreidle), Hanukkah and The Dreidle Song are treated in alternately classical or klezmer (traditional Jewish Eastern European) settings, leading us to the prosaic Mi Yimalel? (Who can retell the things that befell us?) and the final candle blessings, before the orchestra gallops to a rousing finish. By December, '98, this overture will have been performed by over 40 orchestras, including the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony.
HistoryLucas Richman Assistant Conductor, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor, Pasadena POPS Orchestra (CA) lucasr@earthlink.net
Contributorthe composer
Other

Hanukkah Festival Overture

Instrumentation3222 4331 Timp+2, Hp, strings
Length6:30 (minutes)
DifficultyFor professional orchestras to very fine youth orchestra
CommentsPerfect for Winter Holiday Concerts (Pops and Young Peoples')
SourcesFor perusal scores, tapes and information on this work and the many other works that LeDor Music handles for Young Peoples Concerts, Pops and Classical Series, contact: LeDor Music toll free: (888) 624-9094 18653 Ventura Blvd., Suite 118 Tarzana, CA 91356 lucasr@earthlink.net
ExtrasThe Pacific Symphony Orchestra commissioned this work in 1994. It incorporates six specific tunes that either speak of the miracle of the oil that burned seven days longer than it should have or that illustrate the manner in which the holiday is celebrated today. Hanukkah, O Hanukkah, S?vivon (Hebrew for dreidle), Hanukkah and The Dreidle Song are treated in alternately classical or klezmer (traditional Jewish Eastern European) settings, leading us to the prosaic Mi Yimalel? (Who can retell the things that befell us?) and the final candle blessings, before the orchestra gallops to a rousing finish. By December, '98, this overture will have been performed by over 40 orchestras, including the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony.
HistoryLucas Richman Assistant Conductor, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor, Pasadena POPS Orchestra (CA) lucasr@earthlink.net
Contributorthe composer
Other

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