Song of Songs
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In the 1940s Foss had already done two cantatas for voice and orchestra, “Song of Anguish” and “Song of Songs,” that were also on biblical texts.
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If Mrs. Brenner thought plagiarizing the Song of Songs would convince me to ruin my Fourth of July, she was sadly mistaken.
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These are balanced by simple folk-dance patterns, and Tanowitz has said her “Song of Songs” is a “Jewish dance,” but it’s Jewish in the sense that Jerome Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering” is.
From New York Times
Gideon Lester, the artistic director of the Fisher Center, said “Song of Songs” portrays “a community of dancers in a kind of courtyard space.”
From New York Times
But grief for a lost beloved turns out to be the unhealed wound at the aching core of “A Song of Songs.”
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