{"id":52175,"date":"2020-12-13T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T07:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=52175"},"modified":"2020-12-13T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T07:46:45","slug":"liturgical-music-festival-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=52175","title":{"rendered":"Liturgical Music Festival 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saleem Abboud Ashkar\/Photo: Peter Rigaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Polyphony Foundation, headed by violinist Nabil Abboud Ashkar, connecting the Arab and Jewish communities through music, presents the second edition of the Liturgical Music Festival, which will take place in Nazareth, from December 17 \u2013 20, 2020. The concerts will be filmed and shown online, interspersed with scenes of Nazareth, in the special atmosphere of the Christmas season. The festival will host choirs, soloists and orchestras performing liturgical works from different religions, expressing the vision of the Polyphony Foundation to dissolve the barriers between religions and cultures in Israel through music.<\/p>\n

The concerts will be filmed in advance in Nazareth, Berlin, and Tel Aviv and will be broadcast during the days of the festival, followed by live conversations between the musicians and the audience via special studios set up in Nazareth and Berlin. Following the premiere broadcast, the concerts will be available online for another week, until December 26, 2020, at midnight.<\/p>\n

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Nabil Abboud Ashkar\/Photo: Wasim Karam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The festival will open with Nabil Abboud Ashkar’s live broadcast from Nazareth.<\/p>\n

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Nour Darwish\/Photo: Uri Elkayam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice<\/strong><\/p>\n

The opening concert will be Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, conducted by Yishai Steckler. Soloists: Yaniv D’Or \u2013 Orfeo; Hila Baggio \u2013 Euridice; Nour Darwish \u2013 Amore. The Galilee Chamber Orchestra and Tel Aviv Collegium Singers. December 17th<\/sup> at 20:00 (GMT +2). Following the concert there will be a live conversation with the conductor and soloists.<\/p>\n

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Tal Arbel\/Photo: Yoel Levy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back to the Baroque: sacred music of the early Italian Baroque<\/strong><\/p>\n

Motets and instrumental music by Claudio Monteverdi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Alessandro Grandi, and their contemporaries. Tal Ganor \u2013 Soprano; Nour Darwish \u2013 Soprano; Tal Arbel \u2013 Viola da Gamba; Ophira Zakai \u2013 Theorbo and musical director. December 18th<\/sup> at 18:00.<\/p>\n

Pergolesi \u2013 Stabat Mater<\/strong><\/p>\n

A special festival production, the concert will be filmed and recorded at the Sophien Church, a 17th<\/sup> century Protestant church in Berlin, Germany. The concert will be opened by Dr. Christine Schlund, who will discuss the church’s interesting history. This is the church where Dr. Martin Luther King gave a sermon when he visited Berlin in 1964. Following the concert, there will be a conversation with Conductor Saleem Abboud Ashkar and the Head of the Sophien Protestant Church. Soloists: Siobhan Stagg \u2013 Soprano; Niamh O’Sullivan \u2013 Mezzo-Soprano; Members of the Galilee Chamber Orchestra. December 18th<\/sup> at 20:30.<\/p>\n

Eldarwish<\/strong><\/p>\n

A musical journey into the world of the Sufis. The concert will be performed by an ensemble of Sufi clerics and artists from the Galilee. Khaled Abu Ali \u2013 Sufi dancer; Sheikh Mwafak Shahen \u2013 Sufi singer; Mohammed Taraby \u2013 Oud; Usama Abu Ali \u2013 flute; Wehab Bdarna \u2013 Canon \u2013 Abraham Hana \u2013 Percussion; Khaled Abu Ali \u2013 actor, director and dancer. December 19th<\/sup> at 18:00.<\/p>\n

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Yagel and Uriah Harosh\/Photo: Tamar Zimmerman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fantasy for Kamancheh and Oud \u2013 songs for midnight<\/strong><\/p>\n

An intimate performance of the duo Yagel and Uriah Harosh, brothers who play, respectively, the Kamancheh and Oud. Accompanied by a choral ensemble, they will perform Piyyutim from the Jewish ritual of midnight prayers, as well as Piyyutim composed by Yagel Harosh \u2013 original compositions created for this ritual. Yagel Harosh \u2013 Kamancheh, Naija, singing; Uriah Harosh \u2013 Oud, singing; Choral Ensemble \u2013 Neriah Moyal, Nir Gozlan, Gil Greenfeld, Idan Yahud. The concert will be followed by a conversation with the Sufi Ensemble and Yagel Harosh. December 19th<\/sup> at 20:30.<\/p>\n

Mythology and Spirituality in Beethoven’s Music: Piano Concerto No. 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. The concert will be followed by a discussion of Beethoven, and the inspiration he drew from Greek mythology, in particular the connection to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. December 20th<\/sup> at 11:00.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the concerts are 10 NIS, and may be purchased on the festival website, where the concerts will be available for viewing: https:\/\/liturgicalnazareth.co.il\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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