Free Weekly Concerts
Tickets for the Israel Broadcast Authority's free concerts are handed out in the small lobby inside the Jerusalem Theater's side door. Concerts are every Monday at 5 (except this coming week when it is on Tuesday) and tickets are available from 4 PM. You'll get a ticket marked "void" for some old concert indicating a seat that doesn't matter because seating is open. The IBA uses the tickets only to count the house.
While you're waiting for the auditorium doors to open, have a look at the art in the temporary exhibitions. Right now on display are gorgeous pictures that Ethiopean Jews embroidered in painstaking chainstitch. Wish I could afford to buy one.
Last week's concert featured a chorus that proved its ability singing plain song and a Monteverdi mass, then wailed a modern setting of a sixth century Arab poet's lament on her brother's death. After the first few notes we were very sorry he had died and by the end those who remained in the concert hall felt her pain sharply.
In contrast, this week's concert was a joy of percussion. I doubt I'd download this music. The exileration and delight came from sight as well as sound. Nor does a video enchant me as PercaDu ( http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=garu-eGN14I and http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=146495540 ) did in person. I'll buy a ticket to their next concert. They play with the Philharmonic, as you can se and hear on the Youtube, but on Monday I liked them best when the piece was pure percussion.
Anyone know the name of that strange instrument they play? The announcer said it looks like a lying saucer, but I thought it looked as much like a covered, circular, Weber grill. As the announcer commented it sounds a bit like a steel drum.
Copyright 2009 Jane S. Fox
See also www,familyhonor.blogspot.com
While you're waiting for the auditorium doors to open, have a look at the art in the temporary exhibitions. Right now on display are gorgeous pictures that Ethiopean Jews embroidered in painstaking chainstitch. Wish I could afford to buy one.
Last week's concert featured a chorus that proved its ability singing plain song and a Monteverdi mass, then wailed a modern setting of a sixth century Arab poet's lament on her brother's death. After the first few notes we were very sorry he had died and by the end those who remained in the concert hall felt her pain sharply.
In contrast, this week's concert was a joy of percussion. I doubt I'd download this music. The exileration and delight came from sight as well as sound. Nor does a video enchant me as PercaDu ( http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=garu-eGN14I and http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=146495540 ) did in person. I'll buy a ticket to their next concert. They play with the Philharmonic, as you can se and hear on the Youtube, but on Monday I liked them best when the piece was pure percussion.
Anyone know the name of that strange instrument they play? The announcer said it looks like a lying saucer, but I thought it looked as much like a covered, circular, Weber grill. As the announcer commented it sounds a bit like a steel drum.
Copyright 2009 Jane S. Fox
See also www,familyhonor.blogspot.com
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