Maurice Ravel’s setting of this hymn begins with sparse piano chords, and it precedes “The Eternal Enigma” in his collection Two Hebrew Melodies. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this prayer that a boys’ choir recites throughout Leonard Bernstein’s Third Symphony, whose “Din Torah” (“DEEN toh-RAH”) movement narrates a confrontation with God.
ANSWER: Kaddish [accept “Kaddish” Symphony]
[10e] Another “Kaddish” Symphony is by Mieczysław (“m’YEH-chih-swaff”) Weinberg, a composer born in this modern-day country. Krzysztof Penderecki (“k’SHISH-toff pen-deh-RETS-kee”) memorialized events such as the Warsaw Uprising in his requiem named for this European country.
ANSWER: Poland [or Polska; accept Polish Requiem or Polskie Requiem]
[10h] This Swiss-born composer set the Kaddish in his Sacred Service after he emigrated to the United States. This composer’s “Jewish Cycle” also includes an Ecclesiastes-inspired “Hebraic rhapsody” for cello and orchestra.
ANSWER: Ernest Bloch (The rhapsody is Schelomo.)
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