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." 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