The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

The Fire and the Mountains


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Judaic
Catalogue NumberGS-1060
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label Grenadilla
Record Format33 1/3 RPM - 12"
Shelf Number405641
Number of Tracks5
Date Recorded1981
Album Artists
Notes The �Fire and the Mountains�, Moshe Cotel's choral cantata based on the poem by Israel Eliraz, was awarded a first prize in Israel's International Competition on the theme of "Holocaust and Rebirth" held in 1978 to mark the 30th Anniversary of the State. This album was produced in 1980.

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - The Fire and The Mountains (1977)
Composer(s) : Morris Moshe Cotel
2 - Combinations - (Rationalist)
Composer(s) : Morris Moshe Cotel
3 - Permutations - (Dreamer)
Composer(s) : Morris Moshe Cotel
4 - Superpositions - (Madman)
Composer(s) : Morris Moshe Cotel
5 - Resultants - (Super-Rationalists)
Composer(s) : Morris Moshe Cotel