Cooke Quintet performs Ha-Me'aggel Live

Ha-Me'aggel (one who draws circles) Live at Old 1st Concerts on 8/10/2007. This piece has four sections that can be played in any order — a form known as circle music. The melodies in the piece were written using a Klezmer scale, which made me think of the story of Onias (Honi) Ha-Me'aggel, a first century Jewish scholar who drew a circle and placed himself in the center of it, praying for rain — and whose prayers were mysteriously and immediately answered. This song was originally recorded on "an indefinite suspension of the possible" available from Black Hat Records.

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Music

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• Klezmer
• improvisation
• jazz
• composition
• Masada
• SFCCO
• jewish
• Zorn
• Braxton
• Vandermark
• Coltrane
• Dolphy
• Ornette
• Coleman