I, like all composers and playwrights, must spend many many hours of many many days of many weeks and many months in solitary work to complete a project. And even when the work is performed there is no real contact with the public even in the theater. Work in radio is even less connective.

I believe the internet might be a way to share some of my work and plans with a variety of people, and perhaps be a way to establish some contact with you out there.

I have organized the site into pages focusing on the various areas of my work and on my hobby. You are most welcome to share thoughts and criticism with me and other readers on the message board. If you are interesting in reading complete texts, or listening to complete works please feel free to email me.


News
There is a new page on the site: Heinelieder. There you can find a list of my songs on texts by Heine.
There are three MP3 files so that you can hear some of the songs. As more are sung in concert I hope to add more MP3 files. There is also a little story about how I came to compose Heine texts.

I will soon offer all of my chamber music for sale at a modest price. Music available now:

Music for piano: Talmudic Dialogue Nr. 1, Talmudic Dialogue Nr. 2, Passacaglia Nr. 2, Passacaglia Nr. 3 A Four Voice Canon in Five,
Music for Saxophone Quartet. Five Etudes for Saxophone Quartet Israeli Dances for Sax Quartet.

The pdf files of the pieces for piano are $1 a piece. The pdf files of the scores for the Five Etudes and Israeli Dance are $2 each.
Parts will be available for in pdf format for $5 for each work for Saxophone Quartet.
Soon to appear: a string quartet, a piano trio, a wood wind quintet, solo pieces for many of the orchestral instruments and Lieder for Voice and Piano.

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I have been awarded the 2007 Prime Minister's Prize for Composers.

"The writing of Richard Farber is always flowing and vital no matter what ensemble he chooses to compose for.
Apparent in his writing is a great imagination and the courage to break conventional molds and return to them.
The works of Richard Farber are multifaceted, sometimes dramatic, theatrical and extrovert and in the next moment intimate and lyrical. His control of the instrumental media is complete and the composer knows how to achieve the utmost from each orchestral instrument."

Prof. Yehudit Cohen
Alon Bohr
Roni Porrat

download the movie ( 15 mB) The film was produced by the Israel Film Service. The director is Nathan Lifshitz

A Concerto Grosso for Percussion and Orchestra has been commission by the WDR and the Duisburger Philharmoniker.
The premiere was on Sunday, 27 April, 2008, in the new Mercatorhalle Duisburg.
The concert began with another piece of mine: a Passacaglia for Orchestra from the Musicfestkonzert of the Duisburger Philharmoniker.
This piece, which opened the concert, was originally composed for the opera Dracula and the Ballerina in Chains, a neo-victorian musical for opera singers. This is a new orchestration made especially for the wdr music festival and the duisburger philharmoniker.
Karen Kamensek conducted       Listen

first beer after the concerto grosso in duisburg photo: jo cumming tie: shiri abramson

New on the site
► May 2011: a new page, chamber music for sale

►Introduced November 2008: a new page, Music for Solo Piano

►Introduced May 2007:
Enula Yampel has recorded my Sonata Number III for Solo Flute, Her performance was recorded by Yossi Yampel.
It appears as three mp3 files on the Symphony and Chamber Music page. The notes may be viewed as a pdf file.

►introduced August 2006:
Helsinki, a trio for clarinet, viola and harp [1996]
this piece vacillates between frustration and hope ending in a depressed resolution.
the entire piece, over eleven minutes, can be heard in mp3 format on the Symphony and Chamber Music page.
the notes of the second movement may be viewed as a pdf file

►Introduced May 2006:
A collection of hats on the Textile Collector page.
Many thanks to Robert Eising for the photographs of the hat collection.
His web site is here.