Title:	Keter
Duration:	12`
Year of composition:	2003
First performance:	The Rashér Saxophone Orchestra / Bruce Weinberger
	May 16 2004, Bayreuth
Publisher:	Swedish Music Information Center, manuscript

Keter, Binah, Hokhmah, Gevurah, Hesed, Tiferet, Hod, Netzah, Yesod and Malkhut are the names of ten Sefirot, or ten channels of divine flow connecting God with this world. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz gives us a following description of this theory in his book The Thirteen Petalled Rose

"The ten Sefirot taken together constitute a fundamental and all-inclusive Reality; moreover, the pattern of this Reality is organic, each of the Sefirot has a unique function, complements each of the others, and is essential for the realisation or fulfillment of the others and of the whole.

Because of their profound many-sidedness, the ten Sefirot seem to be shrouded in mystery. And there are indeed so many apparently unconnected levels of meaning to each-the levels, moreover, appearing to be unconnected-that a mere listing of their names does not adequately convey their essence. To say that the first Sefira, Keter ("crown"), is the basic divine will and also the source of all delight and pleasure, only touches the surface"...