34;Nabucco", an opera describing the destruction of the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar, was built a hundred years before the destruction of the Second Temple by Herod Hess. And having mentioned opera, we must turn to the most important event of the Festival, Verdi's "Nabucco", to be performed by the Deutsche Oper, Berlin.
FORGET THEE 0 JERUSALEM
OPERA IN A DIVIDED CITY
Luciano Pavarotti was born in Modena four years before the outbreak of World War II. "That's where I learned to be happy." Fascists, Germans and partisans - everyone was shooting." The war could not dampen the boy's natural good spirit.
IRE ISRAEL BAROQUE PLAYERS
34;I have a lot of confidence in these two." He prefers not to learn from a teacher, but to learn firsthand on stage. That's why we try to compensate our cellist Zvi Harel by including cello sonatas in our program or working with celloobligato, such as some Bach sari.".
JERUSALEM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
YOUNG ISRAELI CONDUCTORS AND SOLOISTS WORKSHOP
BORIS BERMAN
BAROQUE AND CONTEMPORARY HARPSICHORD MUSIC
THE HARPSICHORD: REBIRTH OF AN INSTRUMENT
Scarlatti was born in Italy, but spent the best years of his life at the Spanish and Portuguese courts and was himself influenced by the traditional music of both countries. Of the many Iberian students Scarlatti taught, two are represented in my recital: Padre Antonio Soler from Spain and Carlo$Seixas from Portugal.
RÜTH MENZE, PIANO
I had one octave that was pretty fair, but above and below that - nothing at all. I often missed high notes. "Why are you worried?" my nn«herm°U d make me comfortable - 'you are in the development stage. The high notes will come in their own good time. It was Karl Bohm who, after hearing about Christa Ludwig qaveher a trial land immediately announced, "You willsing Cherubino with me". She sang the part of the page in "The Marriage of Figaro" and then hX?>t„02i!0 Sln9Octavian, ("Der Rosenkavalier") under Karl Bohm's baton She says: "In the end I couldn't could no longer bear to see myself in trousers, and was glad when they made me put on a dress.
Record collectors can compare performances of two completely different characters from the same opera, DerRosenkavalier”: the young Octavian (in the recording with von Karajan) and the mature Marschallin (in the Bernstein set).
QUARTETTO ITALIANO
FRANZ SCHUBERT
All you have to do is not strain or force them.' And she was right: every six months I added a semitone to myrange. The Debussy Quartet, which they will play at the 1979 Israel Festival, is the work they played at their first meeting in 1942. Over the years they have amassed an extensive classical repertoire. Romantic and Impressionist music, and this has expanded to include contemporary compositions and pre-classical music. They also play pre-baroque works (Gabriel, for example), using modern instruments, but without vibrato, in order to restore the characteristic sound of the violin family.
The members of the quartet, in addition to the busy schedule of concerts, also teach - in the academies of Milan, Venice, Stockholm and Vienna.
RECITAL PACO PENA CAREOS BONEU
S. BACH
And when you do, it's the Spanish guitar you hear, the guitar of flamenco music. In the Middle Ages they distinguished between the vihuela, the kitaarramoresca (or Spanish guitar) and theguitarra latina (Italianguitar). Spanish composers wrote some of their best music for the guitar. Soon he adapted the finger exercises she taught him to the strings of the guitar. The exercises that Segovia worked out for the guitar have remained standard fare for all aspiring guitarists ever since.
Segovia's playing convinced the musicians of his time that the guitar had a future and that it should be taken seriously.
FLAMENCO PURO”
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the guitar moved across the border and invaded Europe. In the last quarter of the 18th century, a composer was born who by any standard deserves a place of honor in the annals of music history, but who as a composer of classical guitar music will always be This FernandoSor was called "the Beethoven of the guitar", and although after his death he was forgotten, he has since enjoyed a long-awaited revival. Another great guitar virtuoso and composer was Francisco Tarrega. Unfortunately, he was a somewhat inhibited person, for whom public appearances were intolerable, and who ventured beyond the borders of his native Spain only once in his life. Despite the efforts of these composers and the admiration that Paganini and Berliozhad had for them. it (Berlioz defined it as "an orchestra in miniature"), the guitar was nevertheless confined to the lower rungs of the social scale of musical instruments. Segovia was born in 1894 in Andalusia, and as a child he was adopted by a rich uncle living in Granada. The uncle rightly judged the boy to be gifted in music and gave him every encouragement to study - piano, violin and cello. The boy was bored by the outdated academic methods of his teachers and soon tired of his lessons. One by one, he abandoned the elegant, "established" instruments of his uncle's choice and began playing the guitar - secretly because his uncle would have disapproved.
Bach's great Chaconne for unaccompanied violin became a hit in Segovia's recitals and when the musicologists expressed their horror at such "lack of taste", Segovia just shrugged and quietly defended himself: "It is as if the Chaconne was created for the guitar.
MAR SA ROBLES -HARP
DANIEL BINYAMINI- VIOLA URI SHOHAM-FLUTE
MIRIAM FRIED,VIOLIN ILANA VERED,PIANO
TWO WOMEN OF ISRAEL
MlinOITHtOinOHRBU
CINDEREL1APROKOHEV
1HE GLASS SUPPER
When you see these two on stage side by side, you have to admit that they were born to dance together. The end of the ballet, as Cinderella and her Prince fade away, dancing into the distance behind a transparent curtain, is one of the simplest and most moving things we've ever seen. In the classical ballet.". They refuse to give her anything and scold Cinderella when she slips the old woman a slice of bread. The beggar woman has not left sooner and in walks a dancing master who has been engaged to inform the sisters of court etiquette: how to address the Prince and Howtodance a pavane and aminuet. The coach is at the door. She drives off with her corral dwellers and Cinders remains with her broom dreaming of the waltz she will never dance in the arms of the Prince.
He asks permission to rest the house that stands by the road (Cinderella's house, if you haven't guessed). The sisters see the prince's glass slipper.
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET
DDNQUIXDTE
A FULLY STAGED BALLET IN THREE ACTS
Like Don Quixote, Cervantes always confused his financial and business affairs. He traveled over land and sea for his king and received a small reward. But the Spain of the sixteenth century, the Spain of dusty streets and filth, the Spain of shepherds and vineyards, remains immortalized in the pages of this great romance. Outside of Spain "Don Quixote" was thought to be a parody. Two weeks after the original was published in Madrid, three pirated editions appeared in Lisbon. The worst: the pirates were not happy with Cervantes' knights.
To Cervantes' dismay, the plagiarized version of his story was no less successful than the authentic one, and readers could not distinguish between the mad Quixote who was beaten murderously (in the imitation) and the noble idealist who refused to face reality and suffered such disastrous consequences in the original. After the success of the forgery, Cervantes, at the age of sixty-eight, sat down to write a sequel to his book. In the sequel, Quixote and SanchoPanzaset off on new adventures.
DON QUIXOTE AT THE BALLET
After its publication, "Don Quixote" was an immediate success both in Spain and abroad, and it never lost its popularity for the next 350 years. The townspeople take part in the festivities, which are interrupted by the arrival of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. They have nothing worth stealing, but when Lorenzo and Gamache arrive, they are kidnapped and robbed. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza appear. The lovers conspire with Roma to deceive the old knight and turn him against Lorenzo and Gamache.
But the plan goes awry when Don Quixote is distracted by the windmills, which he mistakes for monsters.
LONDON CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE
THE DANCE AS THEATRE
PACO PENA ’ S
MR DAMCE COMPANY
FLAMENCO
A SPONTANEOUS ART
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE BIBLE IN DANCE
INBAL DANCE THEATRE
BAT DDR DANCE COMPANY
LONDON CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE HATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY
KIBBUTZ DANCE COMPANY
BIBLE AND DANCE
IN EBE DEGINNING
Ballet shows a strong preference for the first of the five books of the Pentateuch and avoids the Book of Joshua altogether (although one feels that Rahab, the prostitute and the events in her apartment in the wall of Jericho, are not a bad subject for a ballet would not be). On the other hand, three of the judges will be popular among choreographers: Deborah the prophetess, wife of Lapidot (along with Jael and Sisera), Jephthah (because of his daughter) and Samson (because of Delilah). The Book of Ruth was the choice of Sarah Levi-Tanai for a production by the Inbal Dance Theater (of which she is the founder) and an excerpt from this ballet will be performed as part of the International Seminar in Jerusalem. In "StabatMater" by Robert Cohan, presented in the Festival by the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Mary does not stand alone before the cross; she is the grieving mother of every generation mourning her lost son.
It would be premature to attempt a final judgment of the Bible's contribution to dance, since the greatest influence of the Scriptures occurred in our own century, and the indications are that this newly discovered treasure of source material has not been exhausted.
MANES’ LYSISTRAÏA
ÎMPHI IHUIMHHfflS
War was always the victor, peace the vanquished, in poetry and novel and on the stage. The flood of pacifist literature that flooded Europe after World War I stopped the rearmament of the Allies, but helped Hitler build up his armed power, just as the East did at the expense of the West after World War II. One was a Frenchman, Voltaire, who befriended King Frederick II of Prussia and laughed at his war in "Candide". The other was Aristophanes. Politics is the key, the politics of Athens in the last quarter of the fifth century BCE, events remote in time yet wonderfully relevant to this day.
These timeless geniuses were the main face of Athens. There was another face, less glamorous, less sparkling, less intelligent: the face of the Athenian man on the street.
MAKE LOVE,NOT WAR THEOTBBUK
The play's author, Shloyme Rappaport, who takes his place in the history of drama, was born under the name Ansky in Vitebsk in 1863. He preached socialism and equality and described the suffering of the Jewish masses in the settlements in a series of books in the Russian language. On April 2, 1928, they presented the play for the first time in Palestine, in Zion Cmema, Jerusalem.^.
The wedding ceremony is interrupted, when Leah rejects the groom chosen by her father and speaks in Hanan's voice. The bride was occupied by adybbuk.
COMPAGNIA HHKKXIO SOURI
HARLEQUIN.HUNGRYANDINLOVE
His imagination is extremely fertile, but his logic is of a unique, particularly perverse kind, which sometimes causes him to come to the most ridiculous conclusions. Even at the time when commedia dell'arte was flourishing in Italy, critics wondered why the players had to repeat the same situations endlessly (to which the players replied that these were the situations that dramtists had been writing about for two thousand years). It is indeed pertinent to ask how a popular theater like this could continuously reproduce the same old stories with the same characters in almost identical situations for two hundred years.
The problem, however, remains: these apparently excellent comedians kept coming back, night after night, with the same funny conundrums and farcical encounters, and yet they were able to turn them into i""'.
ERIC’S PUPPET COMPANY
YUVAL THEATRE [ITALIANA IN ALGERI
ERIC ANO HIS PUPPETS
The action takes place in the harem of Mustapha, Beyof Algiers. The Bey is depressed. He has grown tired of his wife Elvira and is in dire need of younger, more attractive female companionship. One of his slaves, Lindoro, a young Italian he bought from passing pirates, always tells him about the incredible beauty of Italian girls. The subject of the lecture is "How to Tame Men" and while Isabella is thus engaged, her three admirers, Mustapha, Taddeo and Lindoro, listen outside her door and each reacts in his own way. Mustapha Bey relaxes in the palace garden, ready to be initiated into the Order of the Pappataci.
It is only when the anchor is weighed and the ship sails that Mustapha, a member of the Pappataci order, realizes that he has been deceived.
EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES EAVOUII
Isabella has given orders and they have been carried out. Now comes the critical phase of her plan. The new Pappataci must be tested. His main concern when I met him was to secure the release of Vladimir Bukovsky, himself a victim of psychiatric abuse in the USSR, whose revelations about that abuse had seen him sentenced to consecutive terms of prison, labor camp and internal exile of 12 years . But the speech in which it describes the treatment he received at the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital is taken from the article in Index, and there are other borrowings from life, such as the doctor's comment, "Your opinions are your symptoms." Victor Fainberg in his own identity appears in the text as one of the group 'M to S' in the speech where Alexander identifies people using letters of the alphabet.
One of the actors broke off in the middle of a speech touching on the experiences of our visitor and found it impossible to continue.
THE ISRAEL NATIONAL CHOIR-RINAT
THE CAMERAN SINGERS
I was drawn to wind instruments from an early age and my first love was the oboe. The first time I heard an oboe was when the Israel Philharmonic Quintet visited Kfar Giladi. At the time I was sixteen and I immediately decided to learn to play the oboe. I got in touch with Eliahu Thorner, the first oboe of the Philharmonic, and he sold me a plastic oboe that had been found in the western desert after Rommel's defeat. It was clear to me that if I wanted to develop professionally, I would have to hit further afield. I had already started working with the choir of the kibbutz movement, Ichud Hakwutzot ve-Hakibbutzim, but this was a body that only met three or four times a year and therefore did not provide the opportunity for serious, sustained work at the professional level.
We even pick up a few tricks, song pieces with percussion instruments or animal cries. The choir of Ichud Hakvutzotve-Hakibbutzim, by the way, has been on tour abroad three times now and, judging by press notices, with great success.
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