Maestro #3

Friday, 21 May 2010

The Blessed Light of Ein Hod

"There is a musical mission many wish to accomplish, yet only a few succeed in recruiting the musical audacity and production resources to fulfill it: to perform all the cantatas written by Johann Sebastian Bach."

Noam Ben Zeev, Ha'aretz, 26.12.2008

The young and fresh Israeli Ensemble, critically acclaimed, presents Bach's masterpiece, Cantata no. 125 together with Zelenka's poetic work – Miserere

Hadas Faran, soprano

Avital Deri, alto

David Nortman, tenor

Yair Polishuk, bass

Israeli Bach Soloists' Orchestra

Sharon Rozner, conductor

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)

Miserere

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Cantata no. 125, "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin" (In Peace and Joy do I depart)

Janco Dada Museum, 10:30 ticket at NIS 85

Concertale

A concert for children and adults

The well known story about the "Ugly Duckling" accompanied with live classical music.

Ilan Levin, pianist

Hila Karni, cellist

Nitzan Zitzer, actor

Esti Karni, puppet theater

Ein Hod Amphitheatre, 11:00 ticket at NIS 55

Yonatan Hai-Violin maker

Beit Tarbut, 11:30 ticket at NIS 50

Sound of the soul in Ein Hod

Bach's picturesque Lutheran Mass together with Brahms's Romanticism in a unique concert

Hadas Faran, soprano

Avital Deri, alto

David Nortman, tenor

Yair Polishuk, bass

Israeli Bach Soloists Orchestra

Sharon Rozner, conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Lutheran Mass in G major, BWV 236

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Motets

Janco Dada Museum, 12:30 ticket at NIS 85

Homage to the artist J. Shaltiel

A meeting with Prof. Joseph Shaltiel, one Ein Hod's veterans, and his vitrage exhibition

at the museum

Exhibition curator: Dr. Irit Miller

Janco Dada Museum, 13:30, free entrance

Rabbi Samuel meets with Argov and Ze'ira

New concertante and artistic performances of the masterpieces by Sasha Argov and Mordechai Ze'ira

Noa Bizansky, soprano

Efrat Levi, pianist

The soul of Sasha Argov (1914-1995)

I didn't know what; Shir eretz

For my beloved; Love song; Indeed?

Lullaby; My river; The green mountain

Love song to the sea

Mordechai Ze'ira (1905-1968)

Sad song; Call my name

These were the nights; Exfoliation

Laila Laila (Each night)

Ein Hod Theatre, 18:00 free entrance

The night's main event

Rot corner of Patachka

Renowned percussionist Assaf Rot meets international jazz pianist Leonid Patachka for a joint venture of music making and unrestrained talent spectacle. Their repertoire ranges from European Classics, through Chinese pentatonics to Brazilian salsa.

Leonid Patachka, pianist

Assaf Rot, percussionist and marimba player

The Hyacinth song – variations on a theme by Rivka Gvilli

Remembering – fantasy by Avishai Cohen

Peter and the wolf – fantasy for marimba and narrator

Brazilian choro - Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho (Pixinguinha)

The merry eight

Recuerdos de la Alhambra – Francisco Tárrega

Wish (Mish'ala) – after Ahinoam Nini and Gil Dor

Songs, standards, fantasies and jazz pieces by:

Ferrara, Jean Carlo Jobim, Paco de Lucía, Chick Corea

Ein Hod Theatre, 21:00 ticket at NIS 130

Saturday, 22 May 2010

String of the Soul

Violinist Asi Matathias, an international Israeli rising star comes to us for a special recital, with three French and Norwegian Romantic works

Asi Matathias, violinist

Victor Stanislavsky, pianist

Cézar Franck (1922-1890)

Sonata for violin and piano in A major

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)

Poème for violin and orchestra

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Sonata no. 1 in F major for violin and piano, op. 8

Janco Dada Museum, 10:30 ticket at NIS 85

The Four Seasons

Concert Show for Children

Vivaldi's work The Four Seasons, presented with explanations, narration, an orchestra, soloists and surprises.

Narrator Michal Yanay and conductor Gil Shohat explain the performed works for children and parents

Michal Yanai, presenter

Nitai Zori, solo violinist

Ra'anana Symphonet Orchestra

Gil Shohat, conductor and music director

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

The Four Seasons

Spring (first movement: Bird song)

Summer (first movement: The cuckoo and the northern wind)

Autumn (second movement: The drunkard's rest)

Autumn (third movement: The hunter)

Winter (first movement: The ice lake)

Winter (third movement: Braking of the ice)

Ein Hod Theatre, 11:00 ticket at NIS 55

Portrait on a Stand

A meeting with the artist Keller Yaniv, a painter in Ein Hod, who will draw a portrait in real time in front of an audience. Keller will draw and explain the stages in a portrait drawing, the manner of pain placing and her considerations while drawing a portrait

Beit Tarbut, 11:30 ticket at NIS 50

Rachmaninov Feast with Victor Stanislavsky

The two piano sonatas, which are the pinnacle of Russian piano music in general and in Rachmaninov's output in particular, will be performed by one of the leading young Israeli pianists

Victor Stanislavsky, pianist

Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Piano sonata in D minor, op. 28

Piano sonata in B-flat minor, op. 36

Janco Dada Museum, 12:30 ticket at NIS 85

Vitrage Art

The artist Bob Nachin will present and explain vitrage and glass artistic techniques, the same one that have been in use for over 1000 years in renowned vitrage works the world over, from the Medieval cathedrals to abstract glass works in public buildings and modern museums. Since ancient Egypt to modern era, in which the contemporary and the antique art combing to create novel and exciting works of art. The artist's personal viewpoint on the techniques that help him express his own thoughts and feelings

Beit Tarbut, 14:30 ticket at NIS 50

Piazzolla's sensuality, Gershwin's passion

A concert mainly marked by wind instruments, performing three twentieth century musical masterpieces,

Piazzolla's tango rhythms, through Poulenc's sarcasm immersed in Romanticism, to an arrangement of Gershwin's wonderful opera Porgy and Bess

Adi Menzel, flutist

Michal Amit, oboist and English horn player

Vladimir Gru, bassoonist

Eckhart Lorenzen, violinist

Batia Steinbok-Lorenzen, pianist

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Trio for flute, bassoon and piano

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano, op. 43

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Five songs from Porgy and Bess for violin and piano

Janco Dada Museum, 16:00 ticket at NIS 85

FROM BILLIE HOLIDAY TO BILLY JOEL
In her deep, rich voice, Adina Even-Zohar performs songs which have become classics

in their own time, Jazz Standards, Blues, Contemporary and original songs to appear
on her upcoming debut album
Giora Linenberg - keyboards
Yorai Oron - bass
Amir David - drums
Mark Rozen - Saxophone

Ein Hod Theatre, 17:00, free entrance

The Show Dada

A one man show presenting Dada scenes and renowned dialogues.*

A collage that introduces the audience to the atmosphere of the era and the Dada.

An encounter with the founding fathers of the Dada movement

Text and director: Michal Svironi; Actress: Adva Levi-Goshen

* An introduction will be presented before the show

Janco Dada Museum, 19:00 ticket at NIS 50

The night's main event

Incredible Rhythm

PercaDu – the internationally renowned duo percussionists, encounters composer, conductor and pianist Gil Shohat, singer and percussionist Din Din Aviv, presenting an evening in which melody meets rhythm, East meets West and contemporary meets Classics

Tomer Yariv, Adi Morag, PercaDu (marimba, vibraphone, drums, percussion instruments)

Din Din Aviv, drum player and singer, Gil Shohat, pianist

Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Prelude in G minor ("Militaire") (Shohat)

Prelude in C minor (Shohat)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude in C-sharp major (from the Well Tempered Clavier) (PercaDu)

Prelude in A minor (from English Suite no. 3) (PercaDu)

Prelude and Fugue in C minor (from the Well Tempered Clavier) (Shohat)

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Romanian dances (Shohat, PercaDu)

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Flight of the Bumblebee (PercaDu)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Water games (Shohat)

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Allegro barbaro (Shohat, PercaDu)

Minoru Miky (b. 1930)

Marimba spiritual (PercaDu)

Din Din Aviv, with PercaDu and Gil Shohat:

My secrets, If you go, I've known you, Not a word, My ancestors

Ein Hod Theatre, 21:00 ticket at NIS 130