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DANIEL GALAY

COMPOSER | PIANIST | WRITER | EDUCATOR

ori tzabari: במלכודת הצלב

VOCAL WORKS

Works are available through IMC (Israeli Music Center) and IMI (Israeli Music Institute) unless otherwise noted

CANTATAS

  • Text: Tzvi Kanar, Yiddish
    For tenor, vl., pno., euphonium, oud, acc., mime actor and narrator, 30’, 2008.
    Premiered in 2008, Israel Traistman, narrator, cantor Israel Rand, tenor, Daniel Hoffman, violin, Gershon Vaysfirer, oud and euphonium. Daniel Galay, piano, Eden Luria, dancer.

  • Texts by the Holocaust resistance groups, in French and Gypsy
    For soprano, baritone, woodwind quintet, and string quintet.

  • Text: based on a story by Bruno Schulz, Polish
    For narrator, soprano, alto, tenor, bass singers, cello and piano 50’, 2008

  • Text: Uri Tzvi Greenberg, Yiddish and Hebrew
    For soprano, vl., perc., bs., rec., effects, pno., and narrators in Yiddish and in Hebrew
    Premiered on Israel TV, 2007.50’, 2007

CHOIR

  • In Yiddish, translation by Yehoash
    For mixed choir, clarinet, and guitar, 5’, 2017, Score.

  • Texts based on folksongs in Hebrew: Usheavtem Maym Besason [Draw water from the well] and in Arabic Halalalalayya [Come to me],
    For Women’s choir, clarinet and percussion (played by singers), 5’, 2004, Score

  • Text: the composer
    For mixed choir, fl. po. perc. and three dancers, 16’, 1979, Publisher: IMI

  • Vocalise                                           
    For mixed choir, 5’, 1975

  • Text: Ecclesiastes C 1-8.        
    For twelve solo voices with piano, 8’, 1973

CHILDREN’S CHOIR

  • Text by the the composer, Yiddish
    For two voices, fl. or vl., cl., vcl., perc., guitar, piano, 5’, arr. 2020, Score sample

  • Psalm 22, Hebrew
    For voice, fl.. or vl., cl., or vl., or vla., cello, and guitar, 4’, arr. by Racheli Galay 2019.

  • For children’s choir in two voices and chamber orchestra, 7’, 2014, Score sample

  • Text: Yael Lavie, Hebrew, Based on an Orientale folktale
    For choir and piano. Score sample

  • Text: a folktale (Hebrew)
    For children's choir, 5’, 1985

SONGS

  • Text: Yiddish folk lullaby
    For singer, 4’, 2016. MS.

  • Text: anonymous girl in a concentration camp
    For singer, 4’, 2013, MS

  • Text: by the the composer, Yiddish
    For singer, cello, and piano, 4’, 2013

  • Text: children from Theresienstadt, Hebrew (trans.)
    For voice and cello, 11’, 2013. Score sample

  • Text: Rivka Basman Ben Haim, Yiddish
    For alto and piano, 3’40, 2012.

  • Text: H. Leyvik, Yiddish
    For alto and piano, 3’, 2012

  • Text: Moshe Liba, Hebrew
    For baritone, fl., vcl., and pno., 9’, 2012. Score sample
    Composed for the International Holocaust Day Commemoration Ceremony, Jerusalem 2012 Foreign Ministry of Israel

  • Text: Song of Songs, Hebrew
    For voice and piano, 3’, 2009.

  • Text: Song of Songs, Hebrew
    For voice and piano, 3’, 2009.

  • Vocalize
    For sop., vl., vlc., pno, 10’, 2001

  • A tango
    Text by the the composer, from Yiddish Cabaret 
    For mezzo, vcl. and piano, 5’, 1999, MS.

  • Text by the the composer, from Yiddish Cabaret
    For voice and piano, 3’, 1999, MS.

  • Text: Yohash, Yiddish
    For voice and piano, 3’, 1995

  • Text: The Preacher from Dubno, Yiddish
    For voice and piano, 3’, 1994, MS. 

  • Text by the the composer
    For soprano solo, 4’, 1992, MS.

  • Text: Yonah Berkman, Yiddish
     For soprano and cello, 6’, 1991

  • Text: Fayvl Zigelboym, Yiddish
    For male voice, 3’30, 1991, MS.

  • Text: Miriam Lindberg English,
    For soprano, clarinet, and piano, 14’, 1991.

  • Text: Yiddish folk tale
    For singer, 60’, 1990, MS.

  • Text: Oded Sverdlik, Hebrew
    For soprano and piano, 12’, 1988.

  • Text: Moshe Waldman, Yiddish
    For soprano, violin and piano, 4’, 1985, MS.

  • Text: Duvner Magid , Yiddish, or English, or Hebrew text
    For voice and piano, 3’, 1985, MS.

  • Text: Eli Ginzberg, Hebrew, Spanish
    For mezzo-soprano flute, cello harpsichord/piano, 11’, 1982.

  • Text: Malkah Lee, Sylvia Plat, Oded Sverdlik in Spanish, Yiddish, English, Hebrew: 
    For alto, piano and percussion, 12’, 1981, MS.

  • Text: Ch. N. Bialik, Yiddish
    For baritone and piano, 2’, 1975, MS.

  • Text: Eliezer Staynberg, Hebrew
    For voice, 2’20, 1975, MS.

  • Text: Yehudah Amichay, Hebrew
    For soprano and flute, 7’, 1975

  • Text: Zelda, Hebrew
    For alto, fl., ob., cl., vla., vc., percussion, 5’, 1974, Publisher: IMI

MUSICAL AND CABARET

  • Text: the composer, Yiddish
    For actors-singers, 15’, 2022. Score sample

  • Seven Cabaret Songs
    Text: the composer, Yiddish
    For voice, cello and piano, 7 songs, 21’, 1996

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