ani ma’amin (unison)
- Catalog ID: S-244
- First Line: ani ma'amin
- Composer: Paul Caldwell And Sean Ivory
- Voicing: unison
- Accompaniment: narrator, optional violin, piano
- Language: Hebrew, Sacred
- Country: United States
- Series: Anton Armstrong Choral Series
- Other: 2006, cd-08, children
- Score: View Score
- Sound: Listen
Price:
$2.15
Description
This piece, arranged by Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory, gained its greatest significance during the Holocaust. Thousands of Jews sang this song in the gas chambers operated by the Nazis. Eyewitness accounts tell us that the music would decrescendo to silence as the gas choked the singers.
For easier reading, there is an optional violin part sold separately: