Composed By: Joseph Hadar

Arranged By: Jack Klebanow

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Voicing: SATB

Keyword love song

Event/Holiday:

Language: Hebrew

Difficulty: easy

Country: Israel/America

Solos: none

Instruments: piano

Lyrics: Moshe Dor

Publisher: World Music Press

Year Composed/Published: 1986

Timing: 3:12

Tempo: slow

First Line: Erev shel shoshanim

description: “Erev Shel Shoshanim” is an Israeli song, conceived in a “folk” style, and tremendously popular both in Israel and the Diaspora in the 1960s. The text of this secular love song is a paraphrase of verses from the Biblical Song of Songs, in which the poet entreats his lover to join him in the fragrant garden for an “Evening of Roses.” This one is quite easy to learn, and has achieved great popularity among U.S. high-school choirs; the tempo is slow, the meter remains quadruple, the mode is Dorian, and voice parts are simple. The trick here is to perform the work with a warm tone and expressive legato phrasing.