First Israeli Harp Festival
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The harp -- by all accounts an ancient instrument -- is enjoying a revival in modern-day Israel. Our correspondent visited the first Israeli Harp Festival to bring us this next report.
Whether it is Irish, Latin, Jewish, or jazz music -- all these are played here with the harp.
The first Israeli Harp Festival and Competition is taking place now in Tel Aviv and hopes to encourage and promote young talented harpists.
[Sunita Staneslow, Harpist, Member of Contest Committee]:
“There is actually more harpists and more harp builders now than ever. I think people think that it is like a dying art and this is just the opposite. This is really a renaissance, revival now. And they think there is only one style of music and actually harp can be in many styles.”
Jazz harpist Park Stickney is a guest of honor at the festival. He came from abroad to perform and teach the jazz harp.
[Park Stickney, Jazz Harpist]:
“The harp I play is a very modern harp, may be one hundred years old. I also play (a) harp that is electric, so that may be 15 years old. So it is conversation between an instrument that (is) at the same time thousands and thousands of years old and also very new.”
The Israeli harpist Ruth Maayani started to play harp 50 years ago.
She was among very few Israeli pupils of harp at that time.
But now, she says, the situation is different.
[Ruth Maayani, Harpist, Member of Contest Committee]:
"There is the next generation that studies and all those that we are teaching. I teach in an academy in Tel Aviv and I see that the next generation carries on with this very seriously."
Harp music is also being used as therapeutic tool. Sunita Staneslow works once a week as a therapeutic musician at Children’s Hospital. She plays for kids that don't feel well ...
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The harp -- by all accounts an ancient instrument -- is enjoying a revival in modern-day Israel. Our correspondent visited the first Israeli Harp Festival to bring us this next report.
Whether it is Irish, Latin, Jewish, or jazz music -- all these are played here with the harp.
The first Israeli Harp Festival and Competition is taking place now in Tel Aviv and hopes to encourage and promote young talented harpists.
[Sunita Staneslow, Harpist, Member of Contest Committee]:
“There is actually more harpists and more harp builders now than ever. I think people think that it is like a dying art and this is just the opposite. This is really a renaissance, revival now. And they think there is only one style of music and actually harp can be in many styles.”
Jazz harpist Park Stickney is a guest of honor at the festival. He came from abroad to perform and teach the jazz harp.
[Park Stickney, Jazz Harpist]:
“The harp I play is a very modern harp, may be one hundred years old. I also play (a) harp that is electric, so that may be 15 years old. So it is conversation between an instrument that (is) at the same time thousands and thousands of years old and also very new.”
The Israeli harpist Ruth Maayani started to play harp 50 years ago.
She was among very few Israeli pupils of harp at that time.
But now, she says, the situation is different.
[Ruth Maayani, Harpist, Member of Contest Committee]:
"There is the next generation that studies and all those that we are teaching. I teach in an academy in Tel Aviv and I see that the next generation carries on with this very seriously."
Harp music is also being used as therapeutic tool. Sunita Staneslow works once a week as a therapeutic musician at Children’s Hospital. She plays for kids that don't feel well ...
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