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A Lament for the Innocent

Version I: For one amplified high soprano and twenty-four musicians with tape

This piece is both a protest and a lament. I conceived it during the period of parent-child separations during the first Trump regime and wrote the work during the terrible and horrendous events in the Middle East which came to a head in 2023/2024 – with so many deaths and crimes against humanity affecting so many innocent people. I am an Israeli-born composer and am protesting intensely and in pain against the killing of so many innocent people by our army and the fact that there are such a huge number of dead children, children without parents and children without limbs in Gaza. I thought that this piece would be a loud scream – it ended up more like a lament. Chaya Czernowin

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Gruppe I: 2 · 1 · 2 · 0 - 0 · 2 · 2 · 1 - P. S. (Crot. · Hi-hat · häng. Beck. · gr. Kuhgl. · 2 Schnarr-Tr. [m./gr.] · gr. Tr.) (1 Spieler) - Klav. - Str. (4 · 0 · 0 · 4 · 3) Gruppe II: 2 · 1 · 2 · 0 - 0 · 2 · 2 · 1 - P. S. (Crot. · Hi-hat · häng. Beck. · Holzboxen · gr. Schnarr-Tr. · gr. Tr.) (1 Spieler) - Sampler (verstimmtes Klavier) - Str. (4 · 0 · 0 · 4 · 3) In Version I wird Gruppe II vorab aufgenommen und in einem synchronisierten Dialog mit der Live-Gruppe über Lautsprecher hinter dem Publikum zugespielt.

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Title:

NO!

A Lament for the Innocent

Version I: For one amplified high soprano and twenty-four musicians with tape

Version II: For two amplified high sopranos and two antiphonal orchestras of twenty-four musicians

Language:

English

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Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2023 - 2024

Duration:

17 ′0 ′′

World Premiere:

April 29, 2025 · Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Sofia Jernberg, soprano · Conductor: Daníel Bjarnason · LA Phil New Music Group
(World Premiere of version II)

April 26, 2026 · Witten (D)
Theatersaal
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
Sofia Jernberg, Sopran · Conductor: Yalda Zamani · WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
(World premiere of version I)

Commissioned work :

Version I: Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic - Version II: Commissioned by the WDR Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonie de Paris, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Keywords:

#peace #war #lament #israel #protest #Palestine #Gaza–Israel conflict