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Liner Notes
Judith Shatin’s Hark My Love, for mixed chorus and piano, is a setting of verses from Song of Songs. It was composed in 1991 expressly for a concert by the New York Concert Singers that was thematically devoted to the Song of Songs. In this piece, the interesting dotted rhythms viscerally evoke the image of the leaping buck, so that the setting is at once a love song and a dance.
Lyrics
From Song of Songs 2
Sung in English
Hark my love.
There he comes leaping over mountains, bounding over hills.
My love resembles a buck or a young stag.
Lo, there he stands at the wall, peeking in the window, peering in the lattice.
My love spoke and said to me: arise my darling.
My fair one, come away.
My dove in the cleft mountains, in the covert steep, show me your form, let me hear your voice.
For your voice is pleasant, your form fair.
My love is mine, and I am his who browses on the lotus.
Until the day breathes, and the shadows flee.
Turn and be my love like a buck or a young stag on the cleft mountains.
Hark my love.
Credits
Composer: Judith ShatinPerformers: Michael Brewer, Conductor; Laudibus, Choir
Test Source: The Anchor Bible
