{"id":1227,"date":"2010-05-31T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/five-hebrew-love-songs\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T23:27:00","slug":"five-hebrew-love-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/five-hebrew-love-songs.html","title":{"rendered":"Five Hebrew Love Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I don\u2019t need any excuse to share Eric Whitacre\u2019s music<\/a>, but when he sets Hebrew lyrics to music, it seems especially appropriate to mention here. Here is a version of his Five Hebrew Love Songs for solo vocalist with violin and piano:<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>And here is the more familiar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4b_lMLUudgc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">choral<\/a> arrangement:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eric Whitacre - 5 Hebrew Love Songs (1-5 +Lyrics)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7SquuW7V45A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>You can also find the composer and his wife Hila Plitmann, who is the lyricist, talking about these pieces online <a href=\"http:\/\/ericwhitacre.com\/blog\/the-five-hebrew-love-songs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Whitacre\u2019s blog<\/a>, and even the <a href=\"http:\/\/ericwhitacre.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/hebrew-love-songs-hebrew.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lyrics handwritten in Hebrew by their author<\/a>. The video is embeded below, and may perhaps be useful to those learning\/teaching Hebrew, as Hila Plitmann walks you through the pronunciation of the Hebrew:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ps2DUmHcCzw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ps2DUmHcCzw<\/a>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4710262370683098808?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t need any excuse to share Eric Whitacre\u2019s music, but when he sets Hebrew lyrics to music, it seems especially appropriate to mention here. 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