Goran Bregovic

GORAN BREGOVIC, SPECIAL EVENT

ON 28^TH SEPTEMBER AT LE MUSE

 

Cuore Tollerante (literally, Tolerant Heart) is the title of a musical composition on the subject of reconciliation commissioned to Bregovic by the Saint-Denis Festival in Paris. One of the extremely rare venues of the concert (with 40 artists on stage) opens the eighth edition of the Klezmer Music festival of Ancona at Le Muse, a festival which perseveres obstinately in its pursuit of Peace, accommodating on one of the four evenings the representatives of the Parents Association of some of the children killed during the conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians.

 

A concert by the generous and enthralling Goran Bregovic does not make the headlines, but Cuore tollerante will do, because, in the form of a modern oratorio, the composition reunites musicians and themes inspired by the three main monotheist religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. A liturgy that is common to the three cultures represented, each, by a singer, a symbol of their religion and of their language: Tunisian actress and composer Amina (among the forerunners of Arab rap in France), gypsy Vaska Jankovska for Christianity (a regular performer in Bregovic’s concerts) and Yael Badash for the Jewish religion. Beside them on the stage, the Moroccan Arab-Andalusian  Orchestra of Tetouan, the Moscow choir, a string quartet from Belgrade, two Bulgarian voices and the unfailing Weddings and Funerals Band, forming a total of forty artists facing the audience.

A truly congenial start to the Klezmer Music Festival, which has taken the official title of “For peace among the people” and which, this year, on its eighth edition, dedicates an entire evening (Wednesday 1^st October at Le Muse) to the Parent’s Circle Association set up in 1995 by a group of Israeli and Palestinian parents in mourning after having lost their children in the endless conflict. The evening will be attended by Moni Ovadia (honorary president of the Klezmer Music association) as well as Israeli and Palestinian representatives of approximately 500 families who have chosen to convert their mourning into the promotion of peace through public meetings, mutual blood donations and by setting up a freephone helpline to allow Israelis and Palestinians to speak to one another.

 

Klezmer is the music of the Jewish Diaspora which, by absorbing different musical expressions, re-emerges every time as a fusion of various cultures: a music of peace and harmony among the people.

The festival programme includes:

Thursday 2^nd October, 10 p.m. at the Barfly, Tredici Canti (thirteen songs) by Luca Faggella (winner of the Tenco 2002 prize) and, then Yankele nel Ghetto by the Klezrom (the most famous Italian group), free entry;

Saturday 4^th October, 9 p.m. at the Teatro Sperimentale, Music for Peace – prayers and song Timna Brauer & Elias Meiri, Courtney Jones, Yildirim Fakilar.

 

For details and tickets, dial: 071.52525 (for performances at the Le Muse Theatre) – 071.203045 (for the remaining venues).