Playing Poetry - Shlomi Shaban sings Till Tomorrow by Nathan Zach
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Till Tomorrow
Singer: Shlomi Shaban
Lyrics: Nathan Zach
Music: Yoni Rechter
Conductor: Guy Feder
Arrangement: Ilan Mochiach
Usually, when we talk about songs by poets, we think of a musician who finds a forgotten poem in a yellow-paged book in an obscure second-hand store. The case of Till Tomorrow is different. Nathan Zach wrote this poem specifically to be set for an album of Nurit Galron. This is a rare case, in which a senior poet proudly collaborates with the Pop industry. Zach - who, had he not died a year ago, would celebrate his 91st birthday today - also chose the name of the album dedicated to his poems, “Songs in the Middle of the Night”.
“He was involved, listened to the tunes on cassettes and expressed his opinion. Looking back, he was always right,” said Galron in an interview for Ma’ariv in 1981, reporting with amazement how Zach demanded to remove the guitar from a certain song.
Nathan Zach’s poems are characterized by motion from one point to another, returning to the first, personal point, with certain added charge. For example, in Till Tomorrow, this process occurs in the opening line: “Whenever I play / Something in me plays,” and in the line “To sing myself to myself”. It is also present in another poem, “The wife of my math teacher died / Poor wife / Of my math teacher / Poor math teacher himself.” The repeat and reflection are present even in the word “math”: what actually occurs in the poem is that nothing much occurs.
It is interesting today to examine the journey that Nathan Zach began as a 29-year-old student who, in his essay “Thoughts on Alterman’s Poetry”, challenged Israel’s most popular poet. Zach’s complaint about Nathan Alterman was that metered and rhyming poetry was not natural. “The joy of meter in its schematic purity is the most primitive joy,” wrote Zach in his renowned essay, which heralded a change of guard and style in Israeli poetry.
Alterman and Zach, the father and the father-slayer, met at Kassit. “Is Alterman such a nothing? Nothing, nothing, nothing? Nothing in my favor?”, protested the wounded Alterman, even though father-slaying in Hebrew poetry was nothing new. Alterman and Shlonsky slayed Bialik at the time. And Roy Hasan did the same to Zach with the line, “I burned the books of Nathan Zach”, in his poem “The Ashkenazi State”. A lot of blood has been shed in Hebrew poetry.
Today, Zach is considered the one who defeated the old, rhyming generation and heralded the free meter that prevails in Hebrew poetry. But Till Tomorrow was constructed in a rather rhymed and metered way. In fact, rhyme and meter have made Nathan Zach’s poems such wonderful and successful songs. It is difficult to set modern poetry to music written in totally free style without any rhyming. Without radio, would Zach have gained such national acclaim?
If one would look for another such poet, one would think of Alterman. We remember mainly his poems set to music, such as Still the Melody Returns. Both Nathans also have in common that they did not refrain from working in the world of entertainment. Alterman was the chief writer for the musical theater “Li La Lo”. One can say that, in time, Zach underwent Altermanization. And perhaps it was not a rebellion against
Alterman, but, rather, a lovers’ tiff. He himself wrote: “Every time I fall in love / Something in me refuses.”
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Every time I play
Something in me plays:
This is my way
To sing myself to myself.
Every time I fall in love
Something in me refuses:
This is my way
To warn myself
Of myself.
Every time I sing
Something in me breaks:
This is my way
To give you myself
Till tomorrow.
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English Translation: Tal Rockman
Director of Photography & Creative: Dror Heller
Sound: Rafi Eshel, Yaron Aldema, Zohar Zaltz - Eshel Sound Studios
Light Designer: Ronen Najar
Light Programmer: Matti Murray
P.A: Yoav Atzmon
Animation: Gavriel Izaky
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עונג צרוף. הלחן, הביצוע של הפילהרמונית, הביצוע של שלומי שבן וכמובן - דבר המשורר. תודה. נוגע ללב 🙏
This music is very beautiful. Thank you very much Yoni Rechter for this expressive music. This music is warm and evocative. Thank you Israel Philharmonic for sharing this music. Shalom!
참 좋습니다(very good)!
Awesome, can't be better. תודה רבה שלום לכולם
Beautiful. Thank you.
פשוט יפיפה... מדהימים!!!
This is your way for us. Like a flower in snow.Toda raba.Lehitraot mischpachot lejißrael
פשוט מקסים!
מדהים
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