The name of this work and its motto are both taken from Dylan Thomas‘ ‘Do not go gentle onto that good night‘,  where Dylan writes (2nd verse): ‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light’.

I have composed this poem for violin and electronics two years ago, and since then I could not stop thinking about the son, pleading with his father to continue fighting a futile war.

The work contains quotes and adaptations taken from previous works: Goose, for choir (1989), and the Jerusalem Piyyut ‘Ha’El Haira Ure’e‘ within the first movement, Kol Hanehalim , from the Mami Rock Opera (1986, with Ehud Banai) and music for Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Habima, 1986)

Rage is not a Symphonic Poem but rather three different ‘moods’, symbolizing also strong musical links to other genre choices in my past (mainly during the 1980’s, a decade in which I had my breakthrough). These choices, I hope, would give me strength  towards that struggle implied within the work’s motto.