The present generation is much to question what they are told. Many young artists know that history

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At the end of the summer cultural immtrac texas program in Jerusalem, the Sacred Music Festival took place in late August. An interview with the curator immtrac texas Gil Ron Shama on the soundtrack of the Holy City, the sense of community of musicians tuning the instruments and the death threats against artists performing in Israel.
Here we are in the midst of political chaos that is mainly a result immtrac texas of different religions. We are concerned immtrac texas but wanted to show with the help of music, the similarities of different cultures. That may be true for people from the West sound trite, immtrac texas but before immtrac texas the era of Internet and e-mail it was very difficult for example for me to communicate with people like Basel Khoury, my fellow musicians from Jordan immtrac texas at all.
So it is us the exchange between music from different cultures and commonalities. The term "sacred" immtrac texas is used both in pagan, Christian, Muslim, Jewish and in the Hindu context. It refers not only to the saints, but also to the mystical elements of music. immtrac texas If we denote as sacred music, we often mean the music of the past, such as the biblical period. We want to show what "may be sacred music" today. I think that it creates spaces where different people can come together immtrac texas peacefully. The music of the festival comes from India, West Africa, Persia, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and other countries in the Middle East and has this much in common, such as certain scales.
I come from a family of artists and thus had no choice! My father is the founder of the Batsheva Dance Company and believed that the world can be changed with the help of art. In 1996, I founded Sheva, Israel, the first band, which consisted of Palestinians and Israelis. We watched as part of a new musical movement, which in the nineties political issues with music and the Kabbalah, which is the mystical side of Judaism union, for the first time. In Israel, it was a kind of revolution, comparable to the sixty-eighters in Europe. After that art could develop much more in everyday life. Formerly immtrac texas ruled religion and politics largely on public opinion. Today's youth is there is a lot more educated and goes much reflected by their own history.
The present generation is much to question what they are told. Many young artists know that history is always immtrac texas also storytelling. They have therefore no longer afraid to question the religious authority. This new awareness is particularly visible in the society immtrac texas that is much more complex than elsewhere. In Europe and the USA, there is a large safety margin between religion and culture, but in Israel, both are still very closely related. It is, for example, a taboo to sing in Aramaic, since it is the sacred language of Jesus.
Ras, a small town in the middle of the desert on the Sinai Peninsula, is perhaps the only place in the Middle East on which Syrians, Jordanians, Israelis, Egyptians, Lebanese and Sudanese, ie those nationalities that are involved in the project, can meet to make music together. Our motto is "We are one." But the reality is that there is not this "one". Egypt is going to go down, the situation immtrac texas in Jordan is tense, and in Syria there is a bloody civil war. From this chaos, a group of people came together who are naive enough to communicate through music.
Jerusalem is in positive and negative ways, the center of the world. The Palestine conflict, which is often presented very briefly, the image of the city is still a very strong impression. Few media break out of the mainstream and overcome the stereotype "of the Palestinian" or "the Jews", because the roots are usually very diverse. Although Israel is a modern country, but it is also like the eye of the storm. Everyone is familiar with Jerusalem, millions of people pray daily for the city, but who really knows? Music plays most commonly only in a religious context a role, which is why they get to hear the least. No one knows, for example, the daily worship in the Armenian churches, is played in the traditional maqam music from Persia. Maqam is a particular system of sounds, their relationships to each other are associated with certain emotions.
Many international artists