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The Cultural Scene
Is Growing In Israel
CAROL NOVIS
Special to The Jewish News
C
ultural life in Israel
during the past year
has been lively and
varied, with plentiful selec-
tions of music, dance, art and
pop and a plethora of festivals
catering to every possible
taste. Indeed, the recent
cultural year might well be
titled the Year of the Festival.
Crowned by a particularly
successful Israel Festival in
Jerusalem during May and
June, Israelis have enjoyed
the Vocalisa '90 Choir
Festival, the First Interna-
tional Blues and Soul Festival
at Ein Bokek, an ethnic
music festival at Kibbutz
Shefayim, the Dead Sea Pop
Festival, a klezmer festival in
Safed and even a festival of
Oriental dance. During the
Passover season alone, seven
different festivals were held
around the country.
This year, over 40 percent
more tickets were sold to the
Israel Festival's myriad
events than last year (which
translates into some 80,000
tickets). Some of the most
popular performances includ-
ed Paco Pena's Spanish Fiesta
Flamenco Group, a well-
received Boris Godunov by
the Polish State Theater, the
San Francisco Mime Troupe,
who brought the play Seeing
Double, and Ingmar Berg-
man's sophisticated and
elegant staging of Madame de
Sade.
While some viewers felt
that many theatrical perfor-
mances were unduly gloomy
(including the siting of a Ger-
man Schiller Theater produc-
tion of Macbeth in a mor-
tuary), others were unreserv-
ed in their praise of tours de
force as Hamlet, performed by
the Polish Stary Theater.
Among other festivals of
note were the Upper Galilee
Chamber Music Days at Kfar
Blum; the Misgav region's
Days of Music and Nature,
which combined nature walks
in the area with concerts; the
Beit Daniel Chamber Music
Festival, devoted to Jewish
and Israeli composers; the
Eilat Jazz Festival in August;
the Jerusalem Film Festival
in July; a rock festival in
Ra'anana in August, and the
third annual Ramot Percus-
sion Festival, which featured
Oriental, African and South
American music.
Highlights of the musical
year included an emotional
visit by the Israel Philhar-
monic Orchestra to the Soviet
"Madame de Sade" in Israel.
Union. This included a con-
cert for Israel's Independence
Day, organized by the Riga
Jewish community, in which
Soviet cantors, musicians and
actors participated. The
visiting Israelis encountered
a great deal of interest, par-
ticularly from Jews con-
templating aliyah. Said IPO
cellist Marcel Bergman, who
is himself from the Soviet
Union, "I didn't meet anyone
who wasn't sitting on suit-
cases."
Another emotional en-
counter was the first visit by
the Berlin Philharmonic to
Israel. This visit marked a
kind of reconciliation bet-
ween what many believe to be
the world's finest orchestra
and Israel. Many Israelis had
felt a reluctance to welcome
the orchestra under the
leadership of its former con-
ductor, the late Herbert von
Karajan, because of his alleg-
ed wartime Nazi sympathies.
The Berlin Philharmonic was
conducted in Israel by Daniel
Barenboim but appeared in a
joint concert with the IPO
with Zubin M e ht a
conducting.
A fairly new orchestra
which reached critical distinc-
tion this year was the Rishon
leZion Orchestra, under the
musical direction of Noam
Sheriff. Though it is sup-
ported by a city of only
130,000, on a shoestring
budget of $1.5 million an-
nually, some beleive it is now
the second best orchestra in
Israel. Not surprisingly, out of
170 members, about 30 are
Soviet olim.
One of the highlights of the
film year in Israel was the
Third International Student
Film Festival, which at-
tracted an audience of 10,000.