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itage of Oriental music that
today is barely a comma in
the syllabus of our music
schools," according to well-
known Israeli balladeer and
confounder of the school,
Yehoram Gaon.
Mr. Gaon, best known for
the lyrical Ladino romances
he croons in his rich tenor
was elected a Jerusalem city
councillor three years ago
where he and his friend of 30
years, musician Avi Shoshani,
began promoting the idea of a
school to preserve and devel-
op the classical Oriental music
tradition. Since then, they
have obtained rent-free
premises from the World
Center for North African
Jewish Tradition and extracted
a $125,000 starting budget
from the city, using part of
that to build seven classrooms
and an auditorium. (The city
has continued its support for
the school, and is providing
half of this year's budget of
over $400,000. The remain-
der, they hope, will come
from donations.)
One talented teacher is
completing a textbook on the
methodology of teaching clas-
sical Oriental music, which
the school hopes to use as the
basis of a high school matric-
ulation course to be intro-
duced into the syllabus in the
coming academic year.
Students were recruited
with ease. Most come with
academic degrees in music
and, perhaps surprisingly, four
in every five are from
European backgrounds.
A renaissance of classical
Oriental music led by an aca-
demic school, is necessary,
according to Mr. Gaon and
Mr. Shoshani, for two main
reasons. First, says Mr. Gaon,
this type of music wasn't writ-
ten down until this century.
"Much of its effect depends
on how it is performed and
because it relies on oral tradi-
tion, there's no absolute way
of performing any piece of
music."
The second reason is social.
Jews immigrating from North
Africa and the Near East in
the 1950's found their culture
derided in the Western-orient-

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