The now of music is not “postmodernism” and is not only concerned with the now. It is made of new contacts and acquaintances with neighboring and distant cultures, traditional and innovative, and it knows very well that it is nothing more than a flowing continuation of currents that originated far from it.
This year’s series summons Joseph Haydn, Iannis Xenakis, Maurice Ravel and Bedouine singing, Johannes Brahms, Menachem Weisenberg and George Gershwin. In it, we will hear the most classical ensembles, the quartet and the quintet in works that are at the sublime peak of Western classical music, alongside original works coming from the present and from the local tradition. Percussion pieces, jazz improvisations and artistic songs.
The chamber element has always been made for sharpening attention, for hearing contacts between individual sounds, for a renewed familiarity with textures and colors. This year, attention will be extended not only to the world of strings, artistic singing and percussion, but also to contacts between timbres, movement and dance.
Prof Ariel Hirshfeld
We are delighted to present to you the next season of the “Seven at 7” series. As every year, we present a diverse program, with the best musicians from Israel and abroad. Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld will deliver a short lecture prior to each concert, and after the performances we will have a conversation of the musicians with the audience, over a glass of wine and light refreshments.
Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld: “The ‘Seven at 7′ chamber concerts series for next season comes, as usual, to dust off habits and the obvious from the music, and as usual it is not necessarily for experts, but rather for those who come to ‘listen diligently, very diligently’(Isaiah 21). It will have some of the pinnacles of chamber repertoire, alongside works known only to the few; It will have Israeli songs that are artistic songs in every way and a wonderful jazz happening, immersion in one instrument (the harp) and in rare orchestral combinations.”
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Pianists Michael Zartsekel and Guy Slapak in a Ravel piano music program.
The Ariel quartet performs two Haydn quartets