David the Shepherd - Olga Ježková
"Before David became a king, he was a lowly shepherd and that is why I felt entitled to use his words and thoughts today.
He probably spoke them in Hebrew, but the 16th century language of the Kralicka version of the Old Testament on my night stand struck me as being wonderfully melodic and picturesque, while also being decisive and in places much more exact in its expression than today's Czech language. It doesn't quite seem fair to me that I take the thoughts of David and put them in the mouth of someone who can sing them better than I can. I chose thirteen verses for the composition, taken out of context from the Old Testament Book of Psalms, and rearranged them to create a specific narrative framework.Clearly their contents are absolutely relevant to any era, so its understandable that I can feel the need to call to God today in the same sense that David did thousands of years ago."
Other compositions by Olga Ježková published in Czech Radio:
Blue Shades
Eye
instrumentationsoprano solo, 3tbn, 2vcl, sega, percdescriptionscorepubl.No.R 074price225 CZK
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