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Vocalise was composed in 1964 by Israeli composer Tzvi Avni at the Columbia-Princeton Center for Electronic Music in New York City.
Avni comments:
"My late first wife, Penina, who was a singer, was with me in New York and when I started thinking about a piece I thought it would be a good idea to use her voice versus electronic sounds, as a dramatic encounter of the warm human voice with the colder and alienated electronic sounds. Having these two kinds of materials, I decided to use the sonata form, namely: an exposition (1 minute), a longer section of "development" (4 minutes) and a recapitulation plus coda. Altogether it is less than 6 minutes long."
Founding director of the Electronic Music Studio at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, Avni has been a student of Paul Ben-Haim, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Aaron Copland and Lukas Foss.
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The photo shows Tzvi Avni with students in Jerusalem.
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