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I'll leave this explanation to the composer himself. "I wrote Tenebrae as a consequence of witnessing two contrasting realities in a short period of time in September 2000. I was in Israel at the start of the new wave of violence that is still continuing today, and a week later I took my son to...

Golijov was born in Argentina in 1960 to Jewish immigrants from Romania. He studied music with his mother, a piano teacher, and at the local conservatory then moved to Israel in 1983 before moving to the USA 3 years later. He is probably best known for his movie soundtrack work but is renowned...