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A setting of verses from Psalm 118, Charles Feldman’s simple piece, A Carol for Hanukka, was a response to conversations with his junior choir at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles concerning their articulated tension between Christmas and Hanukka. Why, the young chorister asked, could they not have a “Hanukka carol” as appealing as the familiar Christmas carols (or the popular, commercially born Christmas songs perceived as carols)? Feldman rose to the challenge by writing this bouncy number. Originally composed for a two-part choir singing in English, it was adapted and published for four-part chorus accompanied by piano, with the words now in Hebrew or English (or, as in this recording, a combination).
Credits
Composer: Charles FeldmanPerformers: Carolina Chamber Chorale; Timothy Koch, Conductor
