Four Sabras

Four Sabras is a short composition for solo piano by American composer Leonard Bernstein.

Sabras (in Hebrew, צבר, "tsabár") refers to vignettes or portraits of different fictitious Israeli children.

Four Sabras consists of four short pieces for solo piano and takes a total of six minutes to perform.

It is basically a two-hand dialog between a rav, a teacher who intones lessons in a melody that is similar to Modest Mussorgsky's "Samuel" Goldenberg, played by the left hand, and Idele (possibly coming from Yudel, Bernstein's paternal grandfather's name), a young boy who is distracted, played in octaves by the left hand.

The third movement is a dance-like piece, possibly referring to a friend of Bernstein's, Yossi Stern, an Israeli artist known for his cartoons.