Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the Israelis conducted a long discussion in Hebrew. This came to be a convenient way for them to speak in confidence without disrupting
...soldiers had leaned against a house to enjoy snacks and smoke cigarettes in the midst of their work. Scattered about were the discarded cardboard boxes of field rations, some of them made in the U.S. They had English labels-"turkey and dumplings"-written on the side. Other boxes had Hebrew lettering...
...wants to find his identity again. So he dumps his woman, takes his kid and heads for the Mediterranean homeland of his fathers. Along the way, he picks up an oversized wanderer named Aretha (Susan Sarandon) whose greatest claim is her ability to sing Jewish folk songs in both Hebrew and Greek. By the end of his 18-month trek, and Mazursky's film. Phillip seemingly reclaims himself. Alas, he does so by means unrevealed to the movie's audience, who watch him sitting contented in his comfortable Manhattan apartment and wonder exactly what all the fuss was about...
...when the New York Philharmonic opens its subscription season this week under Conductor Zubin Mehta, it does so with an eagerly sound. Reich orchestral premiere: Tehillim, an infectious, high-spirited laudation set to Hebrew psalms, which begins with the sound of two hands clapping and ends in a full-throated blaze of hallelujahs. For both Reich and the style of which he is a leading representative, the concert will be a cause of celebration. Minimalism, a joyous, exciting-and sometimes maddening-amalgam of influences as disparate as African drumming, the Balinese gamelan and new wave rock, has come uptown...
Reich's Tehillim should also find popular favor. The most formally conventional piece Reich has yet written, Tehillim (the name means psalms or praises in Hebrew) is in four movements and reflects its composer's interest in cantillation, or chanting of the Scriptures. The music has a strong Middle Eastern flavor with its crisp, jagged rhythms and exotic melodic turns, which compound and pile up on one another until the piece explodes in an irresistible shout of triumph. In Tehillim Reich has added an ecstatic element to his musical vocabulary, and his work has become more poignant...