Birkat Haderekh – Blessing for the Road II (Set of Score and Parts)

Shulamit Ran

Birkat Haderekh – Blessing for the Road IIfor B( Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Violin, Cello, Percussion, and PianoIn celebration of its 75th anniversary season, the Tanglewood Music Center commissioned a mixed quartet from Shulamit Ran, resulting in this work’s original 2015 scoring for B-Flat Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano. BIRKAT HADEREKH (in either scoring) may be heard as a “prayer without words” in which the saxophone and clarinet figure most prominently in cantillation-inspiredcadenzas that frame the work and dramatically emerge throughout. The present sextet scoring was created in 2016 for Latitude 49’s world premiere at the Ear Taxi Festival in Chicago.

Publisher: Theodore Presser Company

Duration: 6:00

Instrumentation: Cello, Clarinet, Piano, Percussion, Violin, Alto Saxophone

Pages: 20+8+4+4+4+8

Format: Set of Score and Parts

UPC: 680160668991

ISBN: 9781491111611

Item No: 114-41891