THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, kresiber 27, 1981 41
New Jerusalem Concert Facility
Filled With Ancient History
By ART LEROY
tic shell, these ar-
rangements have been
tucked away out of sight.
Israel Government
Tourism Administration
JERUSALEM
—
Backstage here is actu-
Jerusalem has a new open-
air concert hall and like ally "belowstage." Dressing
rooms
plus sound and light-
most everything in the city
ing systems having been
it is laden with history.
camouflaged
by a grass-
The site has been known
as the Sultan's Pool since covered natural stone
the 16th Century, but even structure that serves as a
then it was an ancient site. stage. The audience sits on
It was King Herod the Great the lawn or on natural stone
who, in the First Century, ledges that are a part of the
closed off this section of the national park skirting the
valley outside the city walls city walls.
as a reservoir for water he
The acoustic shell is a
brought from 20 miles away modular sculpture, an airy
by aqueduct.
pyramidal shape providing
Despite this water past, an interesting counterpoint
concert-goers at the Merrill to the dominating mass of
Hassenfeld Amphitheatre the Old City's wall. At the
(the new name of the site) end of each season it is dis-
are dry, if not high, as they
sit in the galley between the
Old City's ramparts and the
red-roofed house of the
romantic Yemin Moshe
By ELISSA ALLERHAND
neighborhood, the first
A new chair has been de-
quarter built outside the
veloped by Tel Aviv Univer-
walls in the 19th Century.
The idea of a new use sity Profs. Mircea Arcan
for the old pool was con- and Maurice Brull which
ceived by Jerusalem's can quantitatively evaluate
mayor, Teddy Hollek. Al- sitting and reclining post-
though concerts and per- ures to enable diagnosis,
formances had been tak- and, if necessary, assess
ing place in the am- correction.
The chair displays opti-
phitheatre for several
summers, the technical cally some 1,000 pressure
arrangements were com- points and is adjustable
pleted only recently. Ex- both in the angle of recline
cept for a striking acous- and the size of the base of
assembled and stored.
The Valley of Hinnom, of
which the Sultan's Pool is a
part, used to be a site where,
in pm-monotheistic Israel,
children were sacrificed to
Molokh. Hinnom has been
carried into English as
"Gehenna."
The new amphitheatre is
another in the string of cul-
tural and artistic facilities
which bejewel this valley—
joining the Khan theatre
and entertainment center,
the official guest house of
the Municipality of
Jerusalem, the Jerusalem
Music Center, the Alpert
Youth Music Center, the
Jerusalem City Museum,
the Cinematheque and
acres of lovely green parks.
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