Arranged for harp from the original guitar solo by
Adina Haroz and Jan Freidlin.
16 pp., $7.95, Presser Order number 494-02356 (HARP-1)
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The
verses by Sappho are intended to be read aloud prior to the performance of each
Postlude. The Postludes may be performed with equivalent translations to other
languages. At the discretion of the harpist, these short epigrams may be
omitted. The text is based on the versions published in “Poetarum Lesbiorum
Fragmenta,” (Oxford, 1955) edited by Edgar Lobel and Denys Page.
Jan
Freidlin was born in southern Siberia in 1944 and studied in Odessa where he
later taught as Head of the Music Theory department at the famous Stolyarsky
Special Music College. He currently teaches at the Levinsky Teachers College in
Tel Aviv. Jan Freidlin received the Grand Prix of Varna International Cinema
Festival (1978), the AKUM Prize (Israel) for “Miscenscens”—Sonata for
Violin & Cello (1993), 2nd Prize for “Letters from Arles” for Guitar at
the 1995 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, the Liberson Prize for Piano
Trio Nº 2 (Israel, 1995). His works were performed in the former USSR, Germany,
France ,UK, Italy, Australia, Brasil, USA. His “Sonata in Three Visions” for
Solo Harp was chosen by the International Harp Contest in Israel for the 1998
Contest as the required Israeli work.
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