Tag Archives: Tel Aviv

Jazz: Seamus Blake, Rodney Green & Assaf Kehati in Tel Aviv

Posted on March 1, 2011 by admin

The Hot Jazz series at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art proposed for its 5th concert of the season an experiment. Instead of bringing in one special guest with his band or with an Israeli band (usually in quartet formula) … Continue reading →

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An Oscar for ‘Stangers No More’

Posted on February 28, 2011 by admin

The Oscar goes to … ‘Strangers No More’ for the Best Documentary Short Subject – a film about a very special school in Tel Aviv, a school that gathers children from 48 countries whose parents are foreign workers in Israel. … Continue reading →

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Zellenberg Gewurtztraminer from Marc Tempe

Posted on February 14, 2011 by admin

I discovered a splendid wine and I would like to share the news with you. After the Litvak Gallery and the Orna Ben Ami art exhibition I wrote about we entered to have lunch at Toto – considered to be … Continue reading →

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Gogol’s ‘Revizor’ at the Gesher Theater

Posted on February 7, 2011 by admin

Gogol’s Revizor (The Inspector General as translated in English here) is one of these few great plays in the universal theater repertoire that has the potential of becoming inflammatory and subversive material for any society in any time. The combination … Continue reading →

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Chihuly at the Litvak Gallery in Tel Aviv

Posted on February 4, 2011 by admin

Dale Chihuly’s special relation with Israel continues with a double event this year. After having brought his sets to the opera representation of Bluebird’s Castle at the Tel Aviv Opera he opened across the street at the Litvak Gallery a … Continue reading →

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Ramon Valle in Tel Aviv

Posted on December 26, 2010 by admin

After missing one concert due to some medical adventures I was back last Friday at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art hall for the third concert in the Hot Jazz series. The guests of the evening were the Ramon Valle … Continue reading →

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‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ at the New Israeli Opera

Posted on December 19, 2010 by admin

It seldom happens that people go to an opera performance mainly for the stage sets. Here is one of these rare instances, as the sets of the New Israeli Opera staging of Bela Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle are designed by no … Continue reading →

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Dance: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Tel Aviv

Posted on October 31, 2010 by admin

I know Alvin Ailey’s company for a very long time. It was this company and choreographer and the one of another great artist Alwin Nikolais and his ‘Nikolais Dance Theater’ who came in tours in Romania at the beginning of … Continue reading →

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Max Raabe in Tel Aviv

Posted on October 19, 2010 by admin

I discovered Max Raabe the last winter thanks to ARTE, and it was love from the first song. Raabe and his Palast Orchester specializes in the German cabaret music style of the 20s and early 30s. He has a scenic … Continue reading →

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Exhibition: Vaclav Cigler at the Litvak Gallery in Tel Aviv

Posted on July 17, 2010 by admin

The second exhibition of the Litvak Gallery in Tel Aviv establishes the place as one of the solid landmarks of the art scene in the city, and a house of the art glass bringing artists of international reputation. After the … Continue reading →

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