Original article: http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/project_overview.aspx?TAB=0&MID=550&CID=578&PID=654 The Jerusalem Quartet Prestigious Cultural Ambassadors Representing Israel and Jerusalem The Jerusalem Quartet was established in 1993 and is one of the few small performing ensembles dedicated to playing only as a quartet living in Israel with a permanent home at the Jerusalem Music Center. The Quartet is among the top young…
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US Jewish support for Israeli hard-line is weak A majority of all American Jews, 52-48 percent,…support an active role even if the United States were to publicly state its disagreements with only Israel. American Jews are evenly split on support for exerting pressure on only Israel, a notion that J Street opposes. Full report…
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Original article from the Jerusalem Music Centre: http://www.jmc.co.il/musicfile.asp?mid=9 (since modified, but same info still available on page 3 of this document by the Jerusalem Foundation) The Jerusalem Quartet Jerusalem Quartet L.v Beethoven String Quartet in C major, Op. 59 no. 3 (Rasoumovsky) Introduzione: Andante con moto – Allegro vivace 10:37 Andante con moto quasi allegretto 9:44 Menuetto:…
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A Written statement (30 Mar 2010) by Jerusalem Quartet in response to disruption of their Wigmore Hall concert the day before states: “The demonstrators were mistaken because we are not representatives of the Government of Israel. We are Israeli citizens, but have no connection with or patronage by the Government.” The statement said much more which…
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Below is an extract from an article on the Jerusalem Quartet in the Cleveland Jewish News in 2006. Zlotnikov is one of the four. “They made their first appearance in the United States a year later at New York’s Carnegie Hall.” “This was a special concert that the American-Israel Culture Committee was organizing and the…
Easter message to the international community. Fr Manuel Musallam “We Christians of Palestine have been under occupation for many long years. We’ve been suffering with bitterness at being kept away from the Holy Sites. We’ve been denied our right to worship in Jerusalem. Many Christian generations have never been able to reach Jerusalem to visit…