Mark Zuckerman - Composer

Di zun vet aruntergeyn [The Sun Will Set]

1994 SATB a cappella (CE) Get the Music Recording: Goldene Keyt Singers
(Moshe Leib Halpern/Ben Yomen) A simple arrangement of a sweet song about dusk, with metaphorical undertones.

Poet Moshe Leib Halpern (1886-1932) was born in Galicia and emigrated to New York in 1908, where he was a frequent contributor to the communist Yiddish daily Frayhayt. This arrangement of his song Di zun vet aruntergeyn – with music by Ben Yomen (1901-1970) – was written in memory of Yiddish activist Avram Kahn, who loved this song as he loved Yiddish causes.

The sun will soon set beneath the hill; silently Love will come upon Loneliness that sits weeping upon a golden stone. The golden peacock will come and take us all to the place for which we yearn. Night will come and lull us all into eternal slumber.