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Haifa to host Mu/Zi chamber music festival led by Braunstein and Plesser

International musicians, late-night concerts, and a tribute to composer Uri Bar-Or are planned for the November 26–30 festival.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DAN CARMEL is one of two Haifa hotels scheduled to host the Mu/Zi chamber music festival from November 26 to 30.
Black Metallica Tribute

A Metallica tribute band tribute fills Tel Aviv's international music void

Between the thunderous guitars and drums, abetted by the full orchestra, the sound was thunderous and could sometimes be physically felt like sound waves passing through the chest cavity.

|ByDAVID BRINN
CONDUCTOR LAHAV SHANI with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Paul Ben-Haim’s war symphonies get just deserts

Performed at Carnegie Hall in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, Ben-Haim’s two symphonies are foundational works within the Israeli art music tradition.

|ByLIRAN GURKIEWICZ
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Ode to Joy, on August 28, 2022. It was Tilson Thomas's last concert with the BSO, where he began his career in 1969, as its assistant conductor and pianist.

Battling cancer, famed Jewish conductor Michael Tilson Thomas prepares for his last concert

Facing a return of his brain cancer, Tilson Thomas says goodbye with one final concert in San Francisco.

|ByPENNY SCHWARTZ/ JTA

Classical: Not the ‘Nabucco’ you know

The Phoenix Ensemble performs the opera ‘Nabucco’ by Michelangelo Falvetti.

DECEMBER 1, 2016ByMAXIM REIDER
The Israeli Opera presents a new ‘Nabucco’

How to reinvent an orchestra

The Israel Chamber Orchestra hits all the right notes as it overcomes challenges and wins new audiences.

OCTOBER 13, 2016ByTALI KORD
Ariel Zuckermann, the ICO’s new conductor and musical director

Pianist Boris Giltburg to play Brahms with Rishon Lezion Symphony

They will perform Brahms’s second concerto under the baton of Avi Ostrowsky.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016ByMAXIM REIDER
Pianist Boris Giltburg

Jerusalem Symphony pays tribute to Shira Banki

The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra premieres Daniel Markovich’s ‘Holes in Time’ as part of its opening season concert.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016ByMAXIM REIDER
A memorial at the 2016 Jerusalem Pride Parade honoring Shira Banki

Classical: Back to where it all began

The Ariel String Quartet will perform in Jerusalem.

DECEMBER 31, 2015ByMAXIM REIDER
Ariel Quartet

Music: Madness, Italian style

Menahem Wiesenberg’s ‘La Folia’ is part of a concert by the Rishon Lezion Symphony.

MAY 20, 2015ByMAXIM REIDER
Menahem Wiesenberg

Symphonic thousand

Mahler’s monumental 8th Symphony will be performed in TA and Rishon Lezion.

DECEMBER 4, 2014ByMAXIM REIDER
Norman Lebrecht

CLASSICAL REVIEW

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for presented an altogether off-the-beaten-track work in its concert last week.

APRIL 7, 2013ByURY EPPSTEIN
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 311

Classical Review: IPO

Richard Strauss Double Bill Jerusalem ICC, January 16.

JANUARY 22, 2013ByURY EPPSTEIN
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 311

Dedicated to their artistic director

The Israel Chamber Orchestra performs a tribute to late violinist and conductor Rudolf Barshai.

DECEMBER 12, 2012ByMAXIM REIDER
Rudolf Barshai