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Dozens of musicians held a protest concert in front of the Knesset: "Culture is dead"

About a hundred musicians from all the orchestras in the country held a concert demonstration in front of the Knesset, in protest of the culture freeze.

Among other things, Mendelssohn's mourning march was performed because "culture is dead," and actress Nitza Shaul recited the song "A traveling fishing boat" with the words: "If all its rulers do not wake up, how will culture reach the people?"

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Sagi Ben Nun

Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 13:17

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About a hundred musicians from all the chamber orchestras in the country held a concert demonstration in front of the Knesset, in protest of the freezing of the cultural world (Gil Shamgar)

Protests over the state of the Israeli cultural world continue: About a hundred musicians from all orchestras in the country held a concert demonstration (Wednesday) near the Knesset, in protest of the freezing of the cultural world and its push to one of the last places in the exit layout.

They played classical pieces as well as songs.

In addition to the hundred musicians came an audience of about a hundred people.

Many came with protest signs bearing the saying "Culture or die."

The event was moderated by actress Nitza Shaul.

In recent weeks, the protesting group has held demonstrations in front of the home of Culture Minister Hili Trooper and in front of his home, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein.

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About 100 musicians from all the chamber orchestras in the country held a concert demonstration in front of the Knesset, in protest of the freezing of the cultural world, October 28, 2020 (Photo: Gil Shamgar)

Shira Eliasaf, clarinetist of the Jerusalem Jerusalem Camerata Orchestra and one of the organizers of the event, told Walla!

Culture: "We are a spontaneous group of people that arose two weeks ago after we realized that culture will be the last to return to the exit route. Before us will open almost everything - restaurants, hotels, gyms and more. We arrived about a hundred musicians from all orchestras and ensembles in the country, professional musicians. And all their existence.We do a concert-demonstration because we want them to open the concert halls, and there is an orderly way to get people into the halls while keeping all the guidelines, including e-tickets without anyone touching the tickets, sitting in capsules, small audience with large distances between people, ushers who can be careful "Wearing the masks of the audience, and we musicians can be on stage separated and distant."

Actress Nitza Shaul, along with about 100 musicians from all the chamber orchestras in the country, held a concert demonstration in front of the Knesset, in protest of the freezing of the cultural world, October 28, 2020 (Photo: Gil Shamgar)

The classical musicians performed, among other things, Mendelssohn's mourning march "Because of the Culture That Died", Mosulov's "Iron Foundry" about which Elisaf says that it is "a screaming and difficult work of a modern composer depicting a steel plant, and talking about our life's work that will also collapse" The song "On All These" by Naomi Shemer, and "A Fishing Boat" originally written by Natan Yonatan and composed by Lev Schwartz.

Actress Nitza Shaul recited the song, changing some of the lyrics according to the spirit of the period: "If all its rulers do not wake up, how will the culture reach the people?".

In addition, the song "Jerusalem of Gold" was performed, and Shaul said: "The song was written during a war and we are in a war of culture in Israel."

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