Works Vocal Vayomer Elohim ("Let There Be Light") (1974)
Overview
This setting was found posthumously among Bernstein’s papers in a folder marked “1989,” but the musical atmosphere suggests his style in Dybbuk (1974). Only ten bars long, this rumination on the mystery of creation is, by extension, a tone painting of artistic creativity, suggesting something formed out of nothingness.
© 2003 Jack Gottlieb (Written for the Milken Jewish Archive Label, CDs distributed by Naxos International)
Lyrics
Sung in Hebrew
Genesis 1:3
And God said “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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Details
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Media
Creation of Light, by Gustave Doré.
Wikimedia Commons
Bernstein: Vayomer Elohim
℗ 2003 Milken Family Foundation