Bach Air BWV 1068

"Ein Stein"
Text by Eduard Fischer 1951, originally titled "Der Gedenkstein am Morzinplatz"
Music composed and text edited by Benjy Fox-Rosen, 2015 for the project 
“WAS SIE UNTERLIESZ, HABEN WIR GETAN.”
 by Zsuzsi Flohr, Benjy Fox-Rosen, Eduard Freudmann, Eva Reinold, Luisa Ziaja (2015)
Produced for  Into the City/Wiener Festwochen.
http://www.festwochen.at/into-the-city/

Performed by the Gegenstimmen, under the direction of Stefan Foidl. 
http://www.gegenstimmen.org



Ein Stein Geggenstimmen LIVE Morzin

I composed an audio piece as part of an installation created by Zsuzsi Flohr and Eduard Freudmann. The piece used audio clips from the documentation of “Was sie unterliesz, haben wir getan,” as building blocks to create an ambient piece of music using contrabass, voice, and sounds recorded at Morzinplatz. 


"Was Sie Unterliesz" Exhibition Sample

Text by Mordechai Gebirtig. Set to music by Benjy Fox-Rosen
 Featuring Patrick Farrell, prepared piano; Avi Fox-Rosen, guitar; Benjy Fox-Rosen, voice and bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums; Michael Winograd, clarinet. Produced by Daniel Blacksberg. Translation by BFR with Josh Waletzky and Julie Dawson

You have two worlds,
But in neither do you have joy. 
Here, you are destined no good; 
There, you aren’t worthy of any.

Release from your sufferings
Will not be granted in either world: 
Not in heaven, not on earth,
You are, poor man, worthy of pity.

Two Worlds

Text by Mordechai Gebirtig. Set to music by Benjy Fox-Rosen
Featuring Patrick Farrell, Accordion; Avi Fox-Rosen, guitar; Benjy Fox-Rosen, voice and bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums; Michael Winograd, clarinet. Produced by Daniel Blacksberg.
Translation by BFR
A sunbeam settled on my bed,
Beloved spring's first harbinger,
And gently it begins to wake me.
Get up man! It is day already, the rooster has already crowed!
Spring, the king of love and joy
Is coming from the four corners of the earth.

Get up man, it is day already, the sunbeam says
With warmth, with love and gentle caress.
Go out and spread the news:
Very soon, throughout the forests and fields,
For every bird, man and the whole world,
There will be the long awaited salvation.

Get up man it is day already, the sunbeam says
With warmth, with love, and gentle caress.
The Spring, the herald of freedom
Will make the fields bloom,
And the world will be bright and free,
For all, and also for you Jews.


A Sunbeam/ A Zuniker Shtral

Text by Mordechai Gebirtig. Set to music by Benjy Fox-Rosen
 Featuring Patrick Farrell, prepared piano; Avi Fox-Rosen, guitar; Benjy Fox-Rosen, voice and bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums; Michael Winograd, clarinet. Produced by Daniel Blacksberg. Translation by BFR

The bells are tolling
GLIN GLANG
GLIN GLANG
As if someone were asking:
How much longer? How long?
How much longer? How long?
Will man be a beast,
Will man be a disgrace,
Will man be abandoned
to the devil's hand.
How much longer?
How long will he rule?

The bells are tolling
GLIN GLANG
GLIN GLANG
As if someone were answering:
Not much longer, not long!
Not much longer, not long 
Will the devil rejoice,
Thanks to him
The world is in flames.
Glin glang, glin glang.
Not long, not long! 
His defeat is near!


Benjy Fox-Rosen

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