Alphabet music This composition is the result of the reading and study of Sefer Yetzirah, one of the oldest and most important texts of Jewish mysticism. The mystical vision of the Hebrew alphabet has been the main source of investigation: the combinatory and mathematical rules that Sefer Yetzirah uses to combine and mix the letters have been the fil rouge which structured the entire project. From the mathematical proportions, through the compelling gematriah , medium and link between mysticism and music, gradually derived sounds, timings, forms and structures upon which Alphabet Music translated into music those relations so vividly and at the same time so synthetically described by Sefer Yetzirah. Alphabet Music is followed by other two compositions: Aleph-Beth-Gymel , for solo sopranino sax, in which the dry and sour sound of the instrument gives shape to a kind of music investigation on the first three letters of the Hebrew alphabet, following the example of the kabbalistic speculations, which took inspiration form the very form of the letters. Un der rebe lernt kleyne kinderlekh dem Aleph-Beyz…II is a short cycle of five songs stemming form different traditions: from the poetical texts of great masters of the Kabbalah such as Yizhaq Luria and his disciples, from the tradition of the synagogue cantors of the end of the 19 th century, to the yiddish melody of Oyfn Pripetshik in which a rabbi teaches the rudiments of the Hebrew alphabet to his young students. The performances will be introduced by Mr. Gabriele Mancuso who will shortly outline the history and main characteristics of the text of Sefer Yetzirah and of the Alphabet Music project. Three extraordinary soloists will join Laboratorio Novamusica: Raiz, Pietro Tonolo and Luca Mosca. Aim of the project is to combine art performance and esthetical sensibility to important texts of the Jewish tradition. Alphabet Music does not want to connect music and literature simply juxtaposing an original music composition with an authoritative kabbalistic text as Sefer Yetzirah but to give shape and substance to something which is aesthetically contemporary but structured and on the old, such as the intimate structures of the Hebrew alphabet springing from S efer Yetzirah The project Alphabet music is dedicated to my parents.