Dance of Desert Night

For flute, viola and harp (2025)
Length: 9 minutes
Written for Rosmarin Ensemble with a grant from Ramapo College of New Jersey.

This video (edited from premiere performances)
Rosmarin Ensemble
(Rotem Braten, flute; Itamar Ringel, viola; Marina Fradin, harp)

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About the piece

In 2003 I wrote music for Desert Flower, a puppet show written and performed by Yael Erlich Morag. The beautiful desert-like set design includes real sand and water, and the show portrays two tribes in the desert that choose to fight over land and water, until they learn to connect, collaborate, and grow. Sadly, this show is as relevant now as it was when it was created, over 20 years ago. Dance of Desert Night is an adaption of the main theme from that show, featuring dance rhythms with a Middle-Eastern flare.

Select performances:

• Purple Hills Arts & Heritage Society (Creemore, ON, Canada): Leslie Newman, Sheila Jaffe, Lori Gemmell
• Kol Ha-Musika Festival in the Galil (Israel): Rosmarin Ensemble
• Radionica integracije (Belgrade, Serbia): Strahinja Radoičić, Saša Mirković, Ljubica Sekulić
• Recanati Gallery (Herzliya, Israel): Rosmarin Ensemble
• Israel Music Festival (Haifa, Israel): Rosmarin Ensemble
• Music Center Tel-Aviv Yafo (Israel): Rosmarin Ensemble
• Wilfrid Israel Museum (Israel): Rosmarin Ensemble
• Meggido Cultural Center (Israel): Rosmarin Ensemble

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