The live recording of "Hakol BeSeder, B'eli HaSeder" from Omaha!

It's been awhile since I did a Song-A-Week. In the interim, please enjoy the recording of "Hakol" from the Jewish Federation of Omaha competition, held in January. I'm learning alot just from listening - how absolutely heart-felt performers are when they care about a piece, and just how much I need to learn about orchestration!

24 Hours, a short work for piano and violin by Jamie Klenetsky, about anticipation, anxiety, and the hope of relief.

I've been working on this piece for 2 weeks, and the articulations haven't been notated yet, but I felt that it was important to post this.

"24 Hours" is, as most things I write are, biographical - it is about waiting, anticipating for 24 hours for something dramatic, important, or potentially life-changing. I am a very anxious person, and am confronting many personal issues as of late; hence, the sound of this work is rather disjointed, and in the end, relief simply doesn't come - yet. But you can hear a sense of hope at the end.

This work is rather performable, so if anyone is interested, please let me know.

Tesserae, a work by Jamie about Jamie, not a song, not quite noise.

(I wrote this a month ago. However, it seems to apply now even more than ever. This song is about emotions - frustration, boredom, but most of all anxiety. And the hope that anxiety will dissipate...somehow.)

Lots of soul-searching. Tesserae are pieces of a mosaic - this song is divided into 4 distinct parts. Morning, thoughts upon waking, the mind wanders, dreads; Day, life in a cube, a scream, longing (as always); Dusk, arrival home, tempered happiness, tempered hope; Dream, stillness, joy, breath. If you want to understand me, just listen.

Lyrics:
1. [morning]
here it comes again
here it comes again
make it a long time ago
never waited around

2. [day]
i've gotta get it back
i've gotta get it back
i've gotta get it back
i've gotta get it back...
i've gotta get it back...
oh
yeah
i've got to get it back

3. [dusk]
oh
oh my child
i dream of this day
for as long as i live
the day when
this
is what i hear
is what i hear
is what i hear
my child...
oh my child
when the wavering is silenced
when the stuttering has ceased
i hear a choir of angels
from far away.

4. [dream]
(choir)