The Livnat
brothers will take part in the Carpentras Festival in France which
will be dedicated to conciliation and the struggle against anti-Semitism.The
musicians Aviv and Arik Livnat will perform in an international
music festival in which groups from all over the world will appear
in a spirit of conciliation, fraternity, and peace. This festival,
which is taking place for the second year running in Carpentras,
near Marseilles, opens on Sunday (1.7.01), and will last three days.
Apparently, this is an initiative of the leaders of the Jewish community
in the district to promote the struggle against anti-Semitism and
the influence of the extreme right-wing party in the area. Various
anti-Semitic incidents erupted in this small town in 1990 and again
in 1997; these included desecration of graves in the ancient local
cemetery.Among the artists taking part in the festival will be:
a chamber trio from Sarajevo, Bosnia; Le Balier d'Avraham, from
France; Ensemble Nagilah - a group of Jewish and Moslem musicians
from France and Morocco; The Goyim, a group of non-Jewish klezmerists
from France; Jacinta from Buenos Aires, and others. The Livnat brothers
will appear in a unique jazz event that integrates Jewish melodies
with jazz works.
Merav Yudilowitz
| London
Awaits the Livnat Brothers |
Just before
the new album emerges, they will attend the opening in London
of the show 'Jacob Jacobson' for which they wrote the music.
The Israeli musical group, the brothers Aviv and Arik Livnat,
who returned from a special session of the UN General Assembly
that was held at the beginning of the month in New York, departed
this week for appearances in the Bloomsbury Theater in London,
where they will play original music written by them for a new
show.The Livnat brothers, who will appear at the Camelot club
at the end of the week, are about to release a new disc and, within
the next few months, will be making concert tours in Belgium and
in the 'Carpentras International Festival of Music' in France.
The Livnat brothers were invited at the beginning of the month
to the session of the Children's Summit at the UN, where they
put on a festive concert and introduced the Raz-Ram Foundation,
an association that promotes, by way of the arts, the interests
of orphaned and underprivileged children in Israel.The Livnat
brothers departed for London in June in order to be present at
the premiere of 'Jacob Jacobson,' for which they wrote the music.
This Yiddish show which opens on July 18 2002 portrays the life
story of the man called 'King of the Trouser Buttons,' who becomes
the only survivor of a new world war. This grotesque play was
written by Aharon Zeitlin and produced by David Schneider.
Merav Yudilowitz
The Livnat
brothers are putting on a new show that seeks an equilibrium between
the experience of flying and music.
The brothers Aviv and Arik Livnat are launching a new disc and
putting on a multimedia show that seeks the point of equilibrium
between the experience of flying and music. 'Fugue for Saxophone,'
in its abridged version, was first performed in the 'Jazz Blues
and Video' festival two years ago, and has now been rewritten
as a musical theatrical presentation of dance and jazz accompanied
by video clips of aerial combat provided by the Israel Air Force
archives. Unlike in previous productions, here Aviv plays guitar
and sings, Arik plays wind instruments, Hagai Fershtman drums,
and Arnon Friedman keyboard.
"The idea came to us because of the double entendre in the
Hebrew title. Aviv had composed a piece he called Fugue for Saxophone,
and the connotation of that word put us in mind of the Fouga jet
in which our pilot father crashed and was killed during the war,"
explained Arik (fugue is fouga in Hebrew), and went on to say,
"At that time the Fouga was used by the Israel Air Force
for aerial displays, and during the Six Day War still served as
a combat plane. We asked ourselves if there could be any connection
between an aircraft and music, and started looking for an answer
without really knowing where we were heading."
Between songs Arik Livnat amuses himself with texts which were
specially written for this evening, and which are supposedly spoken
by a pilot who dreads flying. "This is about a pilot affected
by all the flight disasters, several plane highjackings, and the
Twin Towers disaster. He discovers that ever since he left the
Israel Air Force and became a commercial airline pilot he feels
afraid. He decides to attend a workshop to cure his fears, but
to no avail. It's a fantasy, but there's more than a grain of
truth in it. As I was writing the text on the fear of flying the
day before yesterday, I read in Yedioth Ahronoth that this is
a phenomenon that is becoming ever more serious; flight simulation
workshops are being opened all the time in an effort to try to
reduce the impact of this problem, so you see, it really is topical,"
declares Arik with a grin.
The show 'Fugue for Saxophone' is scheduled for Thursday (28.11.02),
Habimah Heineken Club, around 23.00.
Merav Yudilowitz
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