Max composed "Aryeh Shaag" back in 2011 for chorus, shofars and strings. You can listen to it by clicking this link.
By way of a bonus, here are Max's program notes:
The hope of a solution to the age-old historical wandering of the Jewish people, whose presence in the ancient homeland has yet to prove a cure for the perpetual recurrence of persecution throughout Jewish history, today takes on a new guise in the form of exaggerated criticism of the State of Israel.
Generations ago, in a call to faithfulness, the prophet Amos
looked into his people's origins and destiny: “You only have I known of all the
families of the earth; Therefore, I will visit upon you all your iniquities”
(Amos 3:2).
Aryeh Shaag was commissioned for the conference,
"Messianism and Madness," premiered at the Ariel University Center of
Samaria (this being the locale of the biblical kingdom of Israel, where Amos
once prophesied). This recording is performed by a choral and instrumental
ensemble under the direction of the composer.
Here, drawn from Amos 3:1-2, 6-8, is the text:
Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying: You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities. Shall the horn be blown in the city, and the people not tremble? Shall evil befall a city, and the Lord hath not done it? The Lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
