℗ 2024 Cantaloupe Music
| Released | May 24, 2024 |
| Duration | 37m 24s |
| Record Label | Cantaloupe Music |
| Catalogue No. | CA21195 |
| Genre | Classical (Contemporary Era) |
We Lived Happily During the War
Mathew Rosenblum, Jamie Jordan, Talujon Percussion Quartet
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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No Words
Mathew Rosenblum; Mathew Rosenblum |
4:23 | |||
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1.2
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“Ikh lakh fin dir, az Got iz mit mir!” (I’m laughing at you, for God is with me!)
Mathew Rosenblum; Mathew Rosenblum |
2:24 | |||
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1.3
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The Loneliness One dare not sound
Mathew Rosenblum; Mathew Rosenblum |
4:21 | |||
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1.4
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Percussion Interlude
Mathew Rosenblum; Mathew Rosenblum |
4:30 | |||
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1.5
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We Lived Happily During the War
Mathew Rosenblum; Mathew Rosenblum |
3:03 | |||
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1.6
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We Lived Happily During the War (complete program)
Mathew Rosenblum; Mathew Rosenblum |
18:43 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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We Lived Happily During the War contains four songs and a percussion interlude, all of which reflect the isolation, pain, and political call to action – and the resulting inaction – that the 2020 pandemic has come to represent. It is also a further contemplation about my family history, specifically my grandmother’s escape from Ukraine with her seven children after the massacre in her town during the 1919 pandemic (my grandmother’s pre-recorded singing voice is featured in movement II). The piece takes on a devastating new meaning in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Movement I, No Words, translates the phrases “no words” and “there are no words” into ten languages. Movement II is based on a Yiddish folk song (“I’m laughing at you, for God is with me”) and incorporates my grandmother’s pre-recorded voice. Movement III uses the text “The Loneliness One dare not sound” by Emily Dickinson. After a substantial percussion interlude, Movement V presents the powerful poem “We Lived Happily During the War” by Ilya Kaminsky.
- Mathew Rosenblum
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Cantaloupe Music Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -5.12 -8.79 to -0.69 | -25.92 -29.08 to -22.94 | -22.33 -25.70 to -19.40 | 15 12 to 18 | |
| 1 | No Words | -0.69 | -22.94 | -19.4 | 15 |
| 2 | “Ikh lakh fin dir, az Got iz mit mir!” (I’m laughing at you, for God is with me!) | -2.65 | -24.90 | -21.5 | 16 |
| 3 | The Loneliness One dare not sound | -8.33 | -29.08 | -25.3 | 13 |
| 4 | Percussion Interlude | 0.00 | -24.76 | -20.5 | 17 |
| 5 | We Lived Happily During the War | -8.79 | -28.50 | -25.7 | 12 |
| 6 | We Lived Happily During the War (complete program) | 0.00 | -25.33 | -21.6 | 18 |