The album features a vocal trio including Martha Cluver, Mellissa Hughes, and Caroline Shaw, with additional vocal soloists Lainie Fefferman, Charlotte Mundy, and Meaghan Burke.
Recording & Production
The recording features a unique vocal treatment for Mellissa Hughes's "Voice Of God" moments, using selective reverb on certain vowels to create a sense of space without muddiness, inspired by ancient synagogue acoustics.
Recording & Production
Jascha Narveson, the composer's husband, served as the in-house audio engineer for the project, editing, mixing, and mastering the album.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album explores the emotional places the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, sends composer Lainie Fefferman, reflecting her "received identity" as a Jewish-American/Ashkenazi-American.
Composition History
Lainie Fefferman, the composer, has been working on this album, "Here I Am," for fifteen years, beginning in 2009.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Lainie Fefferman describes her work as a musical "midrash," a Jewish practice of interpreting and embellishing biblical texts to illuminate a contemporary context.
Compositional Technique
The album's texts are taken directly from the Jewish Publication Society's 1985 Tanakh translation, with specific chapter and verse provided for each movement.
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