Daniel Asia

Breath In a Ram’s Horn for chamber ensemble and tenor (2003)

for chamber ensemble and tenor

Scoring fl, cl, vln, cello, piano, tenor

Duration 14 Minutes

Movements

1. What Do We Know?

2. Old Medals Prayer Shawls

3. Job Longed For The Grave

4. Rosh Hashana/Yom Kipper

5. My Father’s Name

Recording

Album Title

Breath in a Ram’s Horn

Label

Summit Records [product id: DCD336]

Sound File

Job Longed For The Grave (3rd Movement)

Performances
MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2004
LONDON
WORLD PREMIERE
Lontano
Odaline de la Martinez, Music Director
Daniel Asia, conductor
Robert Swensen, tenor
Purcell Room
South Bank Arts Centre
London England

Review

K. KEUFFEL JR., ARIZONA DAILY STAR
I especially liked “Ram’s Horn,” which recalled various aspects of the Jewish experience and explored Pines’ stormy relationship with his late parents… And in a wonderfully catchy tune that would have graced the finest Yiddish musical, Pines finally comes to terms with his parents whom he can never escape.