{"id":32486,"date":"2015-11-05T01:56:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T08:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=32486"},"modified":"2015-11-05T01:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T08:56:18","slug":"between-seville-and-tetuan-the-israeli-andalusian-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=32486","title":{"rendered":"Between Seville and Tetuan – The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra- Ashdod opens the 2015 – 2016 season with a concert that transcends the borders of language and nationality, with special guests Chekara Ensemble and Rabbi Haim Louk, bringing Morocco, Spain and Israel together onstage. “Between Seville and Tetuan” is a musical and cultural meeting between Andalus in Southern Spain and Tetuan in North Morocco, with performances taking place in Beer Sheva, Ashdod, Kiryat Motzkin, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from November 15 – 24, 2015.<\/p>\n

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The Chekara Ensemble, led by Jalal Chekara, arrives in Israel for the first time to participate in this festive concert. The Ensemble partakes in an illustrious musical history, with a repertoire influenced by Abdessadeq Chekara and Enrique Morente. Chekara, also known in variant spellings as Abdel-Saddaq Cheqara (1931 – 1938), was a violinist, virtuoso oud player and singer of traditional Andalusian classical music and Moroccan folk music. It is thought that the Cha’abi, Andalusian folk songs, were songs composed by women such as Hajja Shili and Hajja Shahaba, but the women were not permitted to record or perform them if any men were present. Songs such as Bent Bladi are written from a woman’s perspective.\u00a0 Abdessadeq Chekara, it is said, learned these songs directly from these women.\u00a0 Chekara also collaborated with musicians in other cultural traditions, such as British pianist Michael Nyman, on the album The Upside Down Violin (1992).
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