Israel CONCERT Program IPO 60th Anniversary HUBERMAN TOSCANINI HEIFETZ Hebrew

Description: DESCRIPTION : Up for auction is a UNIQUE MUSIC MEMORABILIA ITEM. It's a luxurious extensive PHOTO PROGRAM of the 1996 JUBILEE - 60th ANNIVERSARY serie of CONCERTS and RECITALS , Commemorating and celebrating 60 years to the establishment of the ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 1936 - 1996 ( Previously named The PALESTINE ORCHESTRA ) . The LUXURIOUS PROGRAM is a genuine treasure box. Its over 150 pages are throughout PHOTOGRAPHED , Numerous PHOTOS of the ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTORS, SOLOISTS . Historical photos of TOSCANINI and HUBERMAN , The founders. DETALED LISTS and PHOTOS of all orchestra members since its establishment. Numerous articles, The detailed annals of the IPO , Printed signed blessings from Mstislav Rostropovich , Yitzhak Perlman , Claudio Abbado, Georg Solti , Carli Maria Giulini, Alfred Brendel, Yo Yo Ma, Vladimir Ashkenazy, etc. The participants in these RECITALS and concerts were : Zubin Mehta, Murray Perahia , Itzhak Perlman , Pinchas Zukerman ,Mischa Maisky , Yefim Bronfman , Kurt Mazur , Isaac Stern , Maxim Vengerov , Shlomo Mintz, Ida Haendel , Ivry Gitlis, Daniel Barenboim to name only a few. ENGLISH and HEBREW. Also present are the inevitable numerous PERIOD ADVERTISEMENTS. Original illustrated wrappers . Around 9 x 12 " . Over 150 unpaged throughout illustrated pp excluding the covers . Hebrew & English. Very good used condition . Tightly bound. Somewhat stained. ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ) Will be sent inside a protective rigid sealed packaging .PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal & All credit cards.SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered airmail is $ 29 . Will be sent inside a protective packaging. Handling around 5-10 days after payment. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (abbreviation IPO; Hebrew: התזמורת הפילהרמונית הישראלית, ha-Tizmoret ha-Filharmonit ha-Yisra'elit) is an Israeli symphony orchestra based in Tel Aviv. Its principal concert venue is Heichal HaTarbut. Contents 1History 2Awards and recognition 3Music advisors 4Music directors 5Boycott controversies 6American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 7See also 8References 9External links History[edit] The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was founded as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra by violinist Bronisław Huberman in 1936, at a time of the dismissal of many Jewish musicians from European orchestras.[1] Its inaugural concert took place in Tel Aviv on December 26, 1936, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Its first principal conductor was William Steinberg. Its general manager between 1938 and 1945 was Leo Kestenberg, who, like many of the orchestra members, was a German Jew forced out by the rise of Nazism and the persecution of Jews. During the Second World War, the orchestra performed 140 times before Allied soldiers, including a 1942 performance for soldiers of the Jewish Brigade at El Alamein. At the end of the war, it performed in recently liberated Belgium. In 1948, after the creation of the State of Israel, the orchestra was renamed as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Particular conductors notable in the history of the orchestra have included Leonard Bernstein and Zubin Mehta. Bernstein maintained close ties with the orchestra from 1947, and in 1988, the IPO bestowed on him the title of Laureate Conductor, which he retained until his death in 1990. Mehta became as the IPO's Music Advisor since 1968. The IPO did not have a formal music director, but instead "music advisors", until 1977, when Mehta was appointed the IPO's first Music Director. In 1981, his title was elevated to Music Director for Life.[2] In December 2016, the Israel Philharmonic announced that Mehta is to conclude his tenure as music director as of October 2019.[3] Principal guest conductors of the orchestra have included Yoel Levi and Gianandrea Noseda. With Mehta, the IPO has made a number of recordings for Decca. With Bernstein, the IPO recorded his own works and works of Igor Stravinsky, for Deutsche Grammophon. The IPO has also collaborated with Japanese composer Yoko Kanno in the soundtrack of the anime Macross Plus. The initial concerts of the Palestine Orchestra in December 1936, conducted by Toscanini, featured the music of Richard Wagner.[4] However, after the Kristallnacht pogroms in November 1938, the orchestra has maintained a de facto ban on Wagner's work, due to that composer's antisemitism and the association of his music with Nazi Germany.[5] The Secretary-General of the orchestra is Avi Shoshani. The IPO has a subscriber base numbering 26,000.[6] Commentators have noted the musically conservative tastes of the subscriber base,[7] although the IPO is dedicated to performing new works by Israeli composers, such as Avner Dorman. Among the orchestra's education initiatives are the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, a partnership between the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Tel Aviv University. Created by Zubin Mehta and philanthropist Josef Buchmann to educate orchestral musicians to supply the artistic future of the IPO and other orchestras,[8] the school is located on the university's campus in Tel Aviv and works very closely with the IPO, including orchestral training programs, master classes with IPO guest artists and special concerts at the IPO's halls. Several members of the IPO are BMSM alumni, while various IPO musicians serve as BMSM faculty members. In 2007, Lahav Shani first appeared with the IPO as guest soloist. Starting in October 2013, he appeared as guest conductor with the orchestra each year. In January 2018, the IPO announced the appointment of Shani as its next music director, effective with the 2020-2021 season. He is to hold the title of music director designate for the 2019-2020 season.[9][10] Awards and recognition[edit] In 1958, the IPO was awarded the Israel Prize, in music, the first time that an organisation received the Prize.[11] Music advisors[edit] William Steinberg (1936–1938) Leonard Bernstein (1947–1949; Laureate Conductor, 1988–1990) Paul Paray (1949–1951) Bernardino Molinari Jean Martinon (1957–1959) Zubin Mehta (1969–1977) Music directors[edit] Zubin Mehta (1977–2019) Lahav Shani (2020–) Boycott controversies[edit] The orchestra's performance in London at The Proms on September 1, 2011 was disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters. The radio broadcast was interrupted, but the concert was broadcast again a few days later.[12] The orchestra's secretary-general Avi Shoshani declared to London's The Times newspaper that the orchestra was unlikely to ever perform in the UK again.[13] Nobody was prosecuted for the disruptions, partly because the management of the Royal Albert Hall, where the concert took place, declined to cooperate with a group of Israel-supporting lawyers.[14] American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra[edit] American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (AFIPO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to sustaining the financial future of the Israel Philharmonic. Necessitated by the lack of substantial Israeli government subsidy or endowment for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, AFIPO's purpose was crystallized in 1980 through the joint vision of Fredric R. Mann and Zubin Mehta, who created an endowment fund in the United States to ensure the IPO's future. AFIPO seeks to broaden the reach of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and bring its message through music throughout the world. The monies raised by AFIPO are directed towards a fund which assists with the operational support of the orchestra and its musical education programs throughout Israel. Based in New York, the organization cultivates support for the Orchestra by hosting events and encouraging supporters all over North America to contribute to the Israel Philharmonic, a cultural ambassador of the state of Israel. **** Outplaying Hitler: The Creation of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra September 4, 2017 by: Kathy DeGagne, BFP Staff Writer (Lukas Gojda/shutterstock.com) As anti-Semitism cast a dark shadow over Europe in the 1930s, a Polish Jew named Bronislaw Huberman chose to fight it with the only weapon he had—his music. Finding Sanctuary In Germany, Hitler had begun to crack down on the Jewish population, banning them from employment in German companies. Even cultural institutions were not exempt—in 1933, he ordered all Jewish musicians, artists and singers fired from their positions, with further persecution eerily imminent. Huberman, a concert violinist now living in Mandate Palestine, had a premonition of what was about to happen in Europe and acted to save as many Jews as he could, as quickly as he could—on his own initiative and with his own money. Huberman envisioned an orchestra in Palestine called the Palestine Symphony Orchestra; and his dream became a reality in 1936, hastened by the urgent need to provide a safe haven for Jewish musicians trapped in Europe. “One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism,” Huberman said, “and a first-class orchestra will be this fist.” An Orchestra of Olim His musical recruits came from top symphony orchestras across Europe. Eighteen musicians from Germany alone immigrated to Palestine. Other musicians came from countries that stretched from France to Greece and from Latvia to Italy. Over 80 musicians, accompanied by their families, emigrated from Europe. With his brilliant plan, Huberman saved over 1,000 people from the looming Holocaust. Bronislaw Huberman (Public domain/wikipedia.org) It wasn’t easy for Huberman to get immigration certificates for the musicians. In April of 1936, just as they were planning to come, the British severely limited Jewish immigration to Palestine, caving in to pressure from the Arab League. The largest Arab uprisings in a decade made the British nervous and they feared more rioting if Jews immigrated in high numbers. Huberman negotiated with the Jewish Agency to try to get his musicians into the country, but ran into a roadblock when David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, decided that musicians weren’t necessarily the kind of people they needed in Palestine. In frustration, Huberman wrote to Chaim Weizmann and said, “If we don’t get these musicians into Palestine in order to start the Palestine Symphony, it will be a black eye on Zionism.” Weizmann finally agreed to the importance of the symphony and managed to secure 50 immigration certificates for Huberman. The orchestra’s first principal conductor was William Steinberg. As Steinberg was auditioning musicians for the Palestine orchestra in Germany, Huberman was holding auditions in Warsaw, Prague, Krakow and Budapest, searching for the best musicians possible for his orchestra. A Powerful Weapon Huberman invited his friend, Arturo Toscanini, the world-renowned Italian conductor, to conduct the first concert in December 1936. Throughout the rise of Nazism, Toscanini was actively involved in opposing the regime. He spoke openly against fascism, and refused to perform in Nazi Germany, declining an invitation to participate in the 1934 Bayreuth Festival, an annual German music festival that featured works by Richard Wagner, a rabid anti-Semite. Toscanini was reportedly beaten by fascist hooligans in Italy when he refused to play the Fascist national anthem, specially requested by Mussolini. Huberman told Toscanini that his willingness to conduct the first performance of the Palestine orchestra would “constitute a historical landmark both in the struggle against Nazism and in the building of Palestine.” Toscanini accepted the invitation and decided to take the orchestra on tour to Haifa, Jerusalem, Cairo and Alexandria as well. The concerts were all sold out. Toscanini chose the program for the concert in Tel Aviv himself, purposely including Felix Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In doing so, Toscanini thumbed his nose at Hitler’s policy of banning all music by Jewish composers. In the audience at this first performance were such luminaries of the future Jewish state as Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and Tel Aviv mayor Meir Dizengoff. Time magazine reported: “As a full Palestine moon rode over Tel Aviv…the Hebrew Sabbath ended and thousands of Jews began to move toward the Levant Fair Grounds. There they packed the Italian Pavilion to hear great Arturo Toscanini lead Palestine’s first civic orchestra through its first performance.”–Jan. 4, 1937 Though Time waxed lyrical about the setting of the first concert, it was performed amid widespread Arab rioting. The concert represented to both Huberman and Toscanini their personal struggle against anti-Semitism. In Mandate Palestine, where weapons to Jews were strictly forbidden by the British, they knew their most powerful weapon was music. Sowing Seeds, Reaping Rewards Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Yeugene/wikipedia.org) After establishing and funding the orchestra, and leaving the company in the capable hands of William Steinberg, Huberman left Palestine and found refuge in Switzerland, performing all over the world as a concert violinist. In 1948, after the State of Israel was established, the name of the orchestra was changed to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Like its predecessor and the state of Israel itself, the Israel Philharmonic is composed of immigrants from other parts of the world, including the Ukraine, Turkey, Romania and Russia. Anti-Semitism is once again casting a giant shadow over Europe, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has had to endure disruptions by anti-Israel factions at some of their concerts; yet it has performed to worldwide acclaim and is recognized as “one of the top virtuoso orchestras” in the world. Zubin Mehta, the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, spoke about the foundation laid by Bronislaw Huberman and his orchestra of immigrants: “The seeds of culture that Huberman planted here, that he brought from Central Europe—we are reaping its rewards today.” ***** Israel Philharmonic Orchestra About this Artist The ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA is one of Israel's oldest and most influential cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1936, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has dedicated itself to presenting the world's greatest music to audiences in Israel and around the world. Founded by Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra represents the fulfillment of his dream "to unite the desire of the country for an orchestra with the desire of the Jewish musicians for a country." Huberman spent countless hours persuading first-chair musicians of Eastern European and German orchestras, who had lost their jobs as a result of Nazism, to immigrate to Palestine. In doing so, Huberman created an "orchestra of soloists" which, under the esteemed leadership of Zubin Mehta, continues to absorb new immigrants and serve as a gathering point for musicians from all over the world. Major soloists and conductors have always performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Its inaugural concert was conducted by Arturo Toscanini, who felt his participation was a means to demonstrate his opposition to Fascism. Its members traveled in armored cars to play in a besieged Jerusalem during the War of Independence, and, among Israelis, the memory of IPO Laureate Conductor Leonard Bernstein conducting the Orchestra in front of 5,000 soldiers on the Negev dunes after the battle for Beersheba, is an historic moment. Through it all, the Orchestra has enjoyed associations with such renowned artists as Emanuel Ax, Daniel Barenboim, Yefim Bronfman, Principal Guest Conductor Yoel Levi, Yo-Yo Ma, Lorin Maazel, Honorary Guest Conductor Kurt Masur, Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Arthur Rubinstein, Gil Shaham, Isaac Stern, and Pinchas Zukerman. Their time and talent have enriched the cultural life of Israel and have helped the Orchestra to maintain its high artistic standards. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is Israel's premier cultural ambassador and travels extensively throughout the world, particularly to countries where there is little or no Israeli representation. The good-will created by these tours, which have included historic visits to Japan, Argentina, Poland, Hungary, Russia, China, and India is of enormous value to the State of Israel. In 2005, the Orchestra's international touring garnered rave reviews when they traveled to Berlin, Germany to commemorate 40 years of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany, to London, Paris, and Geneva on a tour co-sponsored by the Weizmann and Pasteur Institutes, and to South America where the Orchestra visited eight cities in 20 days. This past December, world-renowned artists came to Israel to help celebrate the IPO's 70th Anniversary. The remarkable two-week festival of music and events marked the historic beginning of the Orchestra. Currently, the Orchestra gives more than 130 performances each year in Israel to their 26,000 subscribers, where 12 different concert series are presented in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has always been integral to the fabric of Israel. The Orchestra has played a prominent role in many celebrations and important historical milestones for the State of Israel and remains an eloquent voice for peace. ***Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Hebrew Ha-Tizmoret Ha-Filharmonit Ha-yisraʾelit, Israeli symphony orchestra based in Tel Aviv–Yafo, founded in 1936 by Bronislaw Huberman as the Palestine Orchestra. Huberman assembled a professional symphony orchestra of high calibre, consisting of Europe’s most talented Jewish symphonic players. Arturo Toscanini conducted the opening concerts in December 1936 and again in April 1938. The orchestra’s name was changed to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) in 1948, after the establishment of the State of Israel. Through most of its existence the IPO was led by guest conductors of international renown who intermittently returned to conduct. Zubin Mehta, who first conducted the IPO in 1961, was music adviser from 1969 and music director from 1977. In 1981 he was named music director for life. The IPO performs the standard central European repertoire from the Classical and Romantic periods, in addition to modern and contemporary works by Israeli and other composers. In deference to domestic disapproval of public performances of works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, whose compositions were widely perceived as inherently anti-Semitic, the IPO did not for several decades perform the music of these two composers in concerts. By the late 20th-century, however, the unofficial prohibition had begun to loosen, although not without controversy. ****

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