About the creation

The cycle of six works – Hexaptychon – is the result if a number of commissions for chamber works bound by a common thread: the poem of Jabrah Ibrahim Jabrah "I’m sick of you" which challenges hypocrisy in all human relations. The composer chose to deal with the various harmonies using a single melodic contour, originally used in the opening of the piece for choir a cappella in a segah – huzzam maqam. The application of this melodic line in various instrumental combinations caused the tempi and textures to change in each and every one of the six pieces. The drafts for the sic works, including that which contains the melodic line, were drawn in the summer of 1996, the time that the composer spent at the Artists Colony Mishkenot Sha'ananim, in Jerusalem. The writing was completed by 1997 when some pieces were premiered. First performance of the pieces may be found on a CD "Israel at 50 – A Celebration with Music of Tsippi Fleischer" produced by Opus One(Cat. No 175). They appear in the CD under the title Hexaptychon, in the order from monody to full texture.