Beit Avi Chai presents "The 1950's in Song and Music": The innocent nineteen-fifties through the lens of songs and the stories behind them.
With Kobi Luria
We return to the years of Ben-Gurion and Mapai; Wilensky and Mohar; Stellmach and Glazer; the transit camps and the austerity period; the sabras and Holocaust survivors; the years of ration coupons and the black market; Shimshon Bar-Noy and Israel Itzhaki; petroleum in a jerry can, and half a block of ice, when the voices of Moshe Hovev and Reuma Eldar were heard on the radios of the tiny country, and songs were the glue that held it together.
Kobi Luria takes you back to those special years, in his unique way.
Thursday, November 17, 8 PM: Session 1: I'm New in Israel (1950-1951)
The transit camps sprout up in order to accommodate the mass immigration to the young country; Alterman reacts to the situation at the Li-La-Lo theatre while it snows in Tel Aviv; in the meantime, the Nahal entertainment troupe is established, setting the tone for the next two decades.
Thursday, November 24, 8 PM: Session 2: The Black Market (1952-1953)
The battle against the black market intensifies; Albert Einstein declines the presidency; and Ben-Gurion settles in the Negev. While the background buzzes with infiltrators, retaliation operations, and the kibbutzim start breaking up, salon music flourishes in Tel Aviv's coffee houses.
Thursday, December 1, 8 PM: Session 3: Petra (the Red Rock) (1954-1955)
Moshe Sharett forms a government in the shadows of hostilities and retaliation, trying to fill the shoes of Ben-Gurion; the Yarkon-Negev water conduit is inaugurated; the settlements of the Lakhish district are established with Wild-West style cowboys; and a preschool teacher from Kevutzat Kinneret, Naomi Sapir (later Shemer) writes her first songs.
Thursday, December 8, 8 PM: Session 4: Not a Legend, My Friends (1956-1957)
Infiltrations and the closure of the Suez Canal spark the Sinai Campaign, in which we fight alongside the British and French; friendly ties with them bring cultural influences such as the Theatre Club Quartet. Hebrew radio finally smiles with "Three in a Boat;" but nothing is as exciting as Nahum Stelmach's goal against the horrid Soviet Union.
Thursday, December 15, 8 PM: Session 5: Song of the Decade (1958-1959)
While Israel celebrates a decade in exhibitions and parades, "Second Israel" riots break out in Wadi Salib. Its songs are starting to be sung, albeit "In Installment," by an immigrant from Egypt, Pilpel al-Masri.
Admission: NIS 40; students: NIS 20; NIS 150 for the series
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