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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

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Roger Peltzman in 'Dedication' (Courtesy)
January 27, 2024, 7:24 am
Piano prodigy Norbert Stern was slain at Auschwitz; nephew’s play revives his genius
After high-profile gigs in the US and Europe, playwright Roger Peltzman will stage ‘Dedication’ at United Nations for International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2025
By Matt Lebovic
The musicians participating in this year's Piano Festival October 24-30, 2023, including Ivri Lider, Ilai Botner, Miri Mesika, Shlomi Shaban, Danny Sanderson, Mosh Ben Ari, Shaanan Streett and others (Courtesy David Granot)
September 8, 2023, 2:56 pm
TA’s Piano Festival celebrates 25 years with week of performances
Some of the biggest local names in music will perform in smaller, more intimate venues around the city
By Jessica Steinberg
A man plays a piano belonging to late Ethiopian nun and pianist Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, during her funeral on March 31, 2023, at the Kidane Mehret Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
April 2, 2023, 3:26 pm
Celebrated Ethiopian pianist and nun dies aged 99 in Jerusalem
Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, who composed more than 150 works, laid to rest at Kidane Mehret Ethiopian Orthodox Church; proceeds of albums used to educate orphans
By AFP
Lahav Shani, artistic director and chief conductor of the Israel Philharmonic, which will head to the US in November 2022 for its first US tour post-pandemic (Courtesy IPO)
October 7, 2022, 11:51 am
Podcast: IPO’s Lahav Shani compares orchestra conducting to film direction
The 33-year-old Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conductor speaks to ToI ahead of a nine-city US tour in November, the symphony’s first since the pandemic. NEW: Full transcript
By Jessica Steinberg
Jazz pianist Stav Achai and her quartet will perform at Holon Theater's Women's Festival, March 8, 2022, marking International Women's Day (Courtesy Yossi Zveker)
March 8, 2022, 2:01 pm
Jazz pianist brings new sound, male band to Women’s Day event
Stav Achai and her quartet and guests offer mix of music and rhythm to Holon Woman Festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (far left) performs a medley of songs, including 'Hava Nagila,' with a comedy troupe on stage in a performance from 2016. (Screenshot/YouTube)
March 1, 2022, 2:40 pm
Old clip shows Zelensky going ‘balls out’ for ‘Hava Nagila’
In 2016, the future Ukrainian leader participated in a ‘piano four hands’ routine, without the hands
By Ethan Freedman
The Second Annual Liturgical Festival will take place online, with concerts from Nazareth and Berlin, December 17-20, 2020 (Courtesy Liturgical Festival)
December 16, 2020, 3:23 am
As brothers turn Nazareth into classical music hub, festival strikes a chord
Saleem and Nabil Abboud Ashkar discovered music on a second-hand piano; now they’re creating generations of classical musicians in their Galilean hometown
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli-American pianist Orli Shaham recently recorded the entire corpus of Mozart piano sonatas, which will be released over five volumes on the Canary Classics label. Volume one recently dropped. (Karjaka Studios)
December 15, 2020, 11:02 pm
LISTEN: Pianist Orli Shaham riffs on recording improv master Mozart during COVID
An Israeli-American musician didn’t let a little thing like a world pandemic stop her when setting out to record Mozart’s Complete Piano Sonatas; Volume 1 hit shelves in October
By ToI Staff
The oversized, lit-up dreidels placed in Jaffa for Hanukkah 2020 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
December 10, 2020, 8:39 am
One for each night: Ideas to celebrate Hanukkah even as the coronavirus lurks
Pandemic-friendly activities to mark the eight-day festival of lights include daytime strolls, nighttime lights, crafts and of course — digital entertainment
By Jessica Steinberg
Carvings adorning the Piano of Siena, a 19th century instrument that disappeared for decades and was expected to fetch more than $1 million when put up for auction, seen in a home in the Israeli coastal city of Caesarea, February 18, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
March 1, 2020, 8:10 pm
Seized by Nazis, found in Israel, ‘Immortal Piano’ expected to fetch $1m
Over the past 221 years, the ornately carved ‘Piano of Siena’ has traveled from Turin, where it was made, to Paris, a WWII battlefield in North Africa, New York, and Tel Aviv
By AFP
Nelly Ben-Or sitting by one of her two pianos in her London home, December 13, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
January 5, 2019, 5:30 am
Nelly Ben-Or risked all to play the piano. It helped her survive the Holocaust
International concert pianist releases her acclaimed autobiography ‘Ashes to Light,’ a story of betrayal, hunger and self-sacrifice, and the will to continue an artistic life
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. file photo, Japanese pianist Kaoru Imahigashi plays the piano during a concert to mark the debut of Gaza's only grand piano after it was rescued from conflict, at a theater nestled in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society's building in Gaza City. Palestinian businessman Saed Herzallah has seized Gaza Strip's only grand piano, claiming he owns the instrument, just days after it made its public debut. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
November 29, 2018, 4:24 am
Days after concert, Gaza’s only grand piano seized by merchant
Piano just made its debut after being restored, and was intended for the Strip’s only music school; now it’s locked in a store room
By AP
Palestinian pianist Yara Thabit plays the piano during a concert to mark the debut of Gaza's only grand piano after it was rescued from conflict, at a theater nestled in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society's building in Gaza City on Nov. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
November 26, 2018, 2:07 am
After rescue, Gaza’s only grand piano makes public comeback
Thanks to complex international restoration effort, instrument nearly destroyed in Israeli airstrike returns to music conservatory
By AP
Some 300 performers will participate in this year's 20th Piano Festival, taking place in Tel Aviv at the end of October (Courtesy Moshe Chitayat)
August 24, 2018, 11:55 am
Punk rocker and new Broadway star to perform at 20th Piano Festival
Rami Fortis, Shiri Maimon and other well-known Israeli musicians take to Tel Aviv stages in October for acoustic, solo and duet performances
By Jessica Steinberg
10-year-old Oshri Bitau at his new piano in the family's Nazareth Illit home, July 15, 2018. (Hadashot screen capture)
July 16, 2018, 12:54 pm
Child prodigy gets a new piano — from a former PM
Oshri Bitau, 10, from Nazareth Illit, has a rare talent for the piano, but his family couldn’t afford one. That’s when ex-premier and lifelong amateur pianist Ehud Barak stepped in
By ToI Staff
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