"The Phoenix" (2018) for flute, viola and harp Many times we see life as a fleeting thing, a meager moment between two abysses, as the famous saying of Rabbi Ibn Ezra goes "The past does not exist, the future is yet to come, and the present is like a blink of an eye". But a deeper look reveals that life and death are only two sides of the same coin and are not opposites. This is actually what the legend about the immortal bird called "Phoenix", which originates in many cultures and also in the Jewish midrashic literature, teaches us. This is