La musique de la Bible révélée: Psaume 23

Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura, LA MUSIQUE DE LA BIBLE RÉVÉLÉE (Harmonia Mundi France), Track 01.

Here, in "honor" of my 49th birthday (July 8, 2008) and (more importantly) of my 26th year (since 1982) of involvement with Haïk-Vantoura's work, I'm posting a copy of a new slideshow found also on my "teamim" channel. As an experiment, I'm leaving this version open to ratings and comments, as I don't leave the videos on "teamim" open. It will be interesting (and diagnostic) to see how people respond to this video.

This slideshow of Psalms 23 includes the consonantal Hebrew Masoretic Text and modified versions of the transliteration and translation provided by Lev Software. The arrangement for modern instruments and the vocal harmonies are of course SHV's, but the ancient melodic line, modality and choral alternation were inferred by her from the Masoretic Text (Letteris Edition).

This is "the Psalm that started it all". It is the very first track of Haïk-Vantoura's work that I ever heard, in the spring of 1982. Its wholly natural, pastoral feel and minor-key setting -- a far cry from the sentimentalized pastoral feel and major-key setting of so many English renditions of this Psalm -- "puts one in David's sandals" as he tends his sheep and muses on how God likewise took care of his own needs. I was captivated from the very first hearing. By the time I got to Track 03 (Psalms 24), the direction of my life's career was changed forever; it was only a matter of time before the change became more formalized in my thinking and action.

For more information, please see www.rakkav.com/biblemusic, www.shofargroup.org. www.savae.org, and (in French) www.estherlamandier.com.

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