With its scriptural language and orchestral sweep, Hakol Hevel transposes our experience of the pandemic into the realm of the mythopoetic, giving us sufficient distance and psychological context to actually •look• at it, and to say, “Yes, we were there, this is what we experienced, this is the weight of our story.”
“Recount it to your children, and to your children’s children.” ← That’s the text of the penultimate movement, but also the message of the whole piece.
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