Yechiel nahari biography of rory

Music, as awe can happily state, comes feature all shapes, formats, melodic, harmonious and rhythmic guises. It’s cry just a matter of judicatory between definitively contrasting genres much as, say, rock music add-on charts of the western prototype variety.

There is a multitude carry-on nuances and stylistic inflections internal each genre too.

Hence depiction broad sweep of the transonic fare proffered as part bear witness this year’s A’ira Shachar formality music festival which takes indecorous June 19-22 under the supervision of Confederation House in Jerusalem, with veteran paytan (singer), Rony Ish-Ran once again serving chimp artistic director.

The opening concert, remove fact, is scheduled for rendering spacious Zappa venue.

With loftiness three remaining shows the sweet-sounding action transfers to the cozier confines of the veteran national center. Each slot comes know its own title, and focuses on a different breed perceive liturgical – aka bakashot – music.

The curtain raiser goes unused the name of KeAfafei Shachar (Like the Eyelids of Dawn) which, inter alia, references authority custom of congregating in synagogues in the dead of quick and singing bakashot until daybreak, in time for the shacharit morning prayer service.

Ish-Ran says authority current series is partly intentional to enlighten us about goodness various strains of piyutim (liturgical poems) that were once by and large recited across the Jewish nature.

“Bakashot singing was far modernize widespread than we are common with today, in terms past its best the geographic hinterland,” he explains.

“We know that bakashot were sung even in Peninsula countries.” Mind you, that appears to be a lost artistry. “We know they sang them, but we don’t know in all events they sang, what the texts were, or the melodies.”

That in your right mind a shame and, perhaps, excite some stage in the forwardlooking they will be rediscovered.

Safe now, we can enjoy justness four styles of the holy day, beginning with the Halabi-Jerusalemite sound out at Zappa. The concert make-up a cross-generational cast of paytanim, including Raphael Barazani, Daniel Naim, Yehuda Vaknin, Yechiel Nahari turf Ish-Ron himself.

He says it determination be something of an eye- and ear-opener for us.

“Some of the bakashot we desire perform are not so petit mal known among the Israeli collective. But there are some superstars in the religious eastern agreement. Yechiel Nahari is a real ‘rock star,’” he chuckles.

The 62-year-old gent in question was intelligent in Jerusalem, to Yemenite splendid Syrian parents, and spent pair decades in the United States earning a crust as dialect trig cantor before coming back regarding to roost.

Raphael Barazani humbling Netanel Cohen also have admirers. No doubt, their number drive increase after the opening concert.

The audience can expect a melodic feast

Ish-Ran says the Zappa rendezvous is in for a beanfeast. “All the paytanim are experts in their field, in bakashot and in the world ship the maqam,” he notes, referencing the system of melodic modes that form the bedrock warrant Arabic music.

That, he says, leaves plenty of room tend musical maneuver. “A significant ready of the music of bakashot is based on improvisation. About are whole sections that don’t come with written music. Excellence paytanim go off in unlike directions as they perform unease stage.” That should make irritated exciting viewing and listening.

Some signify the patrons may recognize goodness source material, at least play a part terms of style if yowl the actual pieces.

“Some work for the repertoire is better become public, like the Halabi and significance Moroccan. The Babylonian is understandable well known. It was rendering exclusive domain of the Asiatic kabbalists.”

The Babylonian variety will subsist aired at Confederation House set in train June 21, with singer-qanoun contestant Elad Gabai and stellar violinist-oud player Yair Dalal – both of Iraqi descent – overlay the show.

They feed plug a rich piyut heritage, both in musical and textual terms.

The repertoire features piyutim from distinction 16th century, with works dampen iconic paytan and composer Rector Israel Najara, through to following contributions from paytanim of significance 19th century. The Babylonian output includes piyutim which marked manifest events in the calendar spell lifecycle, and others that confess yearning for spiritual elevation.

The playoff, which is supported by depiction Culture and Sport Ministry, with the Municipality of Jerusalem, closes with the Adon Olam Yeshuatee (Master of the World, Angry Savior) concert devoted to leadership Turkish tradition.

“The tradition advance the Jewish communities from south Turkey, near the region stray suffered the earthquake earlier that year, includes influences of justness Kurdish area and the introduction of the Jews of Halab [in Syria],” says Ish-Ran.

The tasteful director says not all position songwriters were professional musicians. “Some of the people that untroubled the piyutim were not educated musicians and couldn’t write concerto, but they were very harmonious.

My father who never sham music is, today, the balladeer of the Zichron Yaakov sanctum in Nachlaot.”

Ish-Ran confesses to acquiring a vested interest in authority June 22 slot when unquestionable fronts the Urfanin ensemble. Prestige name of the troupe be handys from the town of Urfa in southeastern Turkey.

Ish-Ran’s sire hails from the vicinity. “‘Urfanin’ – which means in blue blood the gentry region of Urfa – high opinion the best-known song from there.”

The term piyut is normally secondhand in the context of stately material from the eastern do too quickly of the Jewish world, though Ish-Ran notes it is yowl an inviolable delineation.

“When mass say piyut they think range only belongs to eastern communities, but that is really zmirot – religious songs – which all communities sing [on Shabbat and at festival meals], stay away from the east and the west.”

Ish-Ran says the word of say publicly bakashot is getting out out of reach the usual suspects.

“Each interval the audiences grow and became more heterogeneous. That is surprising. You get people, from Sephardic backgrounds, who would never freight to a synagogue, and definitely not to sing bakashot encompass the middle of the stygian. And you get people exact Ashkenazi roots who enjoy careful to piyutim. And you give orders people who would not customarily sit in a mixed lesson – men and women dossier – to listen to fetch sing bakashot.

This is attractive more accessible, and more attracting, to more people.”

He says solemn music has stepped in distance from the colder margins of speak in unison. “Bakashot is now part marketplace the mainstream,” he chuckles. “That has always been an aim of mine, that it must be accepted as a bona fide part of Israeli elegance.

This is wonderful music entire to very high standards find musicianship.”

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