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Requiem for peace
International artists will perform Britten's ‘War Requiem’ officiated by Jerusalem music academy
More than 200 musicians and singers from Israel and abroad, some of whom represent leading musical academies in Europe and the US, will perform Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" in a special concert to be held on June 5 at the Tel-Aviv Performance Arts Center.
The concert will close the 75th anniversary of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, which is also producing the event. The concert is dedicated to the message of peace and will be attended by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
Musical History Tour
Shlomo Kaplan was one of the founders of choral music in the Land of Israel. Starting at the end of the 1920s, he established choirs and served as their conductor. In the 1950s, he was put in charge of the State of Israel's choruses and worked to advance Israeli music
"War Requiem" is considered one of the largest musical compositions ever written for an orchestra and chorus in the 20th century, which has been withheld from performance in Israel for quite sometime due to its complexity in requiring two orchestras, two choruses and a children’s choir.
The concert will be conducted by Mandi Rodan (symphony orchestra and chorus conductor) and Prof. Ilan Schul (chamber orchestra conductor), the academy’s president. Other executing partners in the concert include Stanley Sperber (chamber and student choirs’ conductor) and Dafna Ben-Yohanan (Ankor Children's Choir conductor.) The soloists are Yasmin Levy, Jeffery Francis and Dennis Sidov.
"The requiem announces the end of the war era and humanity's march forward to an era of peace,” said Prof. Schul. “The concert’s main message is that music is an international language of bonding, allowing for creative collaboration between students all over the world; a joint creation transcending all nations is a moving human experience producing art at its best.”
