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Orit Mesaperet (Orit’s Stories), Cantata for Children

Opus: 253 Year: 1954 
Ensemble
Voice and Piano
Choir and Orchestra
Voice, Choir and Orchestra
DURATION
20:00 min
Category
Vocal Music, Choral, Choir and Orchestra, Songs, Children's Songs
Tags
Mixed Choir, Recording, Voice, Yaffa Yarkoni

A Dec. 14, 1954 recording:
Yaffa Yarkoni, Voice
Marc Lavry, Conductor
Kol Zion Lagola Choir (The Broadcasting Service Choir)
Instrumental Ensemble

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Orit Mesaperet (Orit’s Stories) Sheet Music
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Lyrics: Michael Desheh (in Hebrew.)

Publisher: The Marc Lavry Heritage Society

Synopsis:
The cantata for children, Orit Mesaperet (Orit’s Stories), includes 9 of Michael Desheh’s poems he wrote for his daughter Orit. Lavry, whose children were about the same age, related to the situations each poem described. He composed music to 9 of them, some of which are still sung to date by children in Israel.

The songs are:

  • Boker Tov – Good Morning
  • Hamatana – The Gift
  • Hashabbat – Sabbath
  • Hageshem – Rain
  • Orit Hola – Orit is Ill
  • Orit Vehagdi – Orit and the Kid
  • Sod – Secret
  • Orit Mul Hare’ei – Orit in front of the Mirror
  • Shir Eres – Lullaby

Lyrics are in Hebrew.

 

Performances:

The Atar Trio, with singer Ye’ela Avital, performed the cantata for children Orit Mesaperet in their program “Childhood Scenes”.