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Prtd*y September 9. IM*
The Israel Philharmonic
Hy HENRY W. LEVY A Nation’s “Best Ambassador Abroad
When Carlo Maria Giulini
mounts the podium at New
York’s Metropolitan Opera House
and lifts his baton on Sunday
evening, October 16th, the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra will
launch not only its second Ameri
can tour, but the world famous
orchestra will begin its twenty-
fifth anniversary year
Twenty-five years ago, in a con
verted exhibition hall adjacent
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great Italian.' the late Arturo
Toscanini, probably the world’s
greatest conductor, similarly lift
ed a baton that started a group
of 72 refugee musicians on their
way to fame
Maestro Toscanini had gone to
Palestine to lead a new orchestra
organized by Bronislaw Huber-
man from among the survivors of
Nazism. He gave his great pres
tige and talents not only to the
musicians he had known in the
leading concert halls of Europe
but also as an expression of his
fierce hatred of dictatorship and
his faith in the development of
a Jewish state
Now, one of the world’s re
nowned orchestras, the Israel
fhilhaimemt cornea to these
shores for a seven week tour of
the United States, Canada and
Mexico under the auspices of the
America-Israel Cultural Founda
tion and the J M Kaplan Fund
Inc. The world’s leading impres-
sario, S. Hurok, has assumed the
management of this tour which
will take the orchestra to some
thirty communities.
The American tour, which will
be inaugurated with a concert
and ball to be attended by lead
ing dignitaries of the world’s
great powers, will be dedicated
to the United Nations And this
is eminently appropriate both be
cause by its make-up the Israel
Philharmonic is a United Nations
ip miniature, and the principal
sponsor of the American tour,
the America-Israel Cultural
Foundation, has long been dedi
cated to the cause of cultural ex
change as an aid to world peace.
The orchestra was founded at
the height of the Arab riots of
1936 and it has seldom played
against a peaceful background.
But untoward events have not
been allowed to interfere with
its music making. It has had to
travel in armored trucks, it has
often been fired upon but it has
always gotj to the place of the
concert. Only when Jerusalem
was severed from the rest of the
country in 1947-48 did concerts
cease there and then as soon as
the beseiged city could be reach
ed, the Israel Philharmonic Or
chestra brought its music to the
capital. In the World War it gave
over 160 concerts for the Allied
Forces. In the Israel War of In
dependence it gave many con
certs for troops in remote places.
A military camp on the night of
the fight for Lydda Airport for
the very troops who later cap-
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SAN FRANCISCO, (J T A) —
Rabbi Louis I. Newman of New
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last week where he once held a
pulpit to listen to a first per
formance of a portion of Marc
Lavry’s new opera “Tamar and
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The performance was given by
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The colloboration between the
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tued that Important jkoint. An
other unforgetable “Military con
cert” was that at the Biblical
town of Beersheba when the en
semble with Leonard Bernstein
at its head, played for thousands
of men of the Negev Forces.
From the day that Toscanini
conducted the orchestra’s first
performance in Tel Aviv, the
orchestra has been blessed with
the leadership of the world’s
finest conductors and music’s
most outstanding soloists Among
the noted conductors have been,
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Dr Serge KoussevTlsky’ Leonard
Bernstein, Josef Krips, Charles
Munch and Eugene Qrmandy.
Since its first American tour
in 1951, also under the asupices
of the America-Israel Cultural
Foundation, the orchestra has
made a number of other foreign
tours that have added to its in
ternational laurels. In 1955 the
ensemble toured nine countries of
Europe with outstanding success;
in the summer of 1959 it tri
umphed at the Athens Festival
New Synagogue
Reports
PITTSBURGH, (JTA) — Dedi
cation ceremonies for a new
main building of the Shaar Ha-
Shamayim Jewish Center in
Eastmont will take place for
three days starting Sept. 9.
Started six years ago to serve
the religious, educational and
social needs of Jews in the areas,
the Center has become a major
focus of Jewish life. The first
wing was completed in 1955, and
the second in 1959.
The program of activities in
cludes a Sunday school, Hebrew
School, day nursery, adult
classes, late Friday night serv
ices, Sunday breakfast minyans
and a Junior Congregation.
CALGARY, (JTA)—The new
synagogue of Congregation Beth
Israel will be dedicated on Sep
tember 11. The $400,000 struc
ture was designed to serve as a
house of worship, a house of
study and a house of assembly.
NEWARK, (JTA)—Congrega
tion Kehilath Israel of Newark
has purchased a tract of land
and will break ground this fall
for a synagogue, social center
and religious school building.
The $500,000 building will be
completed in time for the High
Holy Days n the fall of 1961.
SAN DIEGO, (JTA) — The
new Reform synagogue in San
Diego will be called Temple
Solel, Hebrew for pathfinder.
The congregation will meet at
the Unitarian Church until the
new congregation builds its own
home.
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while in January of I960 R
its first tour of the nearby is!
of Cyprus.
The tpuaic director and princi -
pal conductor for the American
tour will be Carlo Marla Giuluu
His associate conductor. vill be
Dr. Joaet Krips who will con
duct six concerts. Gary Bertini,
young Israeli conductor, will also
accompany the orchestra.
In all, the I960 foreign tour
of the orchestra will see it play
ing some fifty concerts in five
nations of the world—the United
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gation as "Israels best ambas
sador abroad” — a designation
given it by the late U. S. Ambas
sador to Israel, Monnett B. Davis
—the Israel Philharmonic will
have travelled around the world
.and be away from its home base
in Tel Aviv, the Mann Audi
torium. a little less than three
months.
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