Yitzhak Yedid: "Imaginary Ritual"

Yitzhak Yedid
"Myth of the Cave"
From Part 3:"Imaginary Ritual"

Yitzhak Yedid- Piano
Nitai Levi- Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
Ora Boasson- Double- Bass

First Movement-The Crystal Hope
Second Movement-Non Believer's Prayer
Third Movement-Imaginary Ritual
Fourth Movement-Liturgical Sorrow
Fifth Movement-Delusion Reality
---- total time 61.08

Composition by Yitzhak Yedid
Recorded Live at Vilnius Festival
2006


The composition "Myth of the Cave" is a suite in five movements for Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Double Bass and Piano, commissioned by German record label -between the lines-. It was composed by Yitzhak Yedid in Jerusalem, Israel, 2002, and premiered in Frankfurt, Germany, October 2002.

The fundamental idea of the composition was inspired by Plato's philosophic metaphor "The allegory of the cave":
Human beings sit in a cave, in chains, their backs to the entrance. The shadows of things moving outside are projected by the light onto an inner wall of the cave. As the prisoners have never been outside the cave since birth, they believe these shadows are reality. One of them succeeds to free himself and walks outside into the light. He realizes that he has lived his whole life in the shadow of an illusion. Delighted by his discovery, he returns to the cave to communicate it to the others. Violence erupts between he who ventured to the outside and those who do not want to understand. The story ends with the death of the only person to have ever gained an insight into reality.

The allegory is an appropriate metaphor for the difficult reality of our time- a delusional reality, ignorance of the truth and of suffering in the world. The music expresses feelings of criticism, pity, prayer, mercy and a keen desire to recognize the truth.

Performing the composition demands three different approaches of the players.
The first approach is to play precise composed notes and rhythm with full commitment. Nevertheless, the player is expected to give a personal commentary, even up to changing or adding notes, if convinced of their necessity.
The second is to express already presented feelings, thoughts and atmosphere, through deliberately guided improvisational structures.
The third is a choice, either to compose a part thought out in advance, or to improvise without any previous thought.

The composition contains five movements, each of them consists of parts which sometimes will reappear in the other movements as completing or repeating motives. One has to listen to the entire composition, to be able to understand the musical conceptual meaning.


The third movement, "Imaginary Ritual", describes a hypothetical, imaginary sick situation, stating, that this ritual is real. The music passes through themes in an unexpected way, seeming illogical. In the improvisational parts the players were asked to describe the "walking on the edge" through borderlines breaking improvisations, neither always logical nor considerable.

Yitzhak Yedid, January, 2003
(translated by Amia Boasson)

Produced by- Franz Koglmann & Paul Steinhardt
Artistic Director- Franz Koglmann

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[kurd55]

Pleasure to listen to.

[nationalparksign]

bizarre, but very good.

[DORMIMIYON]

very inspiring and totally fresh and interesting.

[tlombababa]

What a ritual