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http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=04-Jul-2008&lang=es&s=2497
http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=04-Jul-2008&lang=es&s=2497
04-Jul-2008
by Harley Jones
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| In June, a large accordion festival in Israel officially honored accordion composer, performer and teacher Yehuda Oppenheimer was for his work in the accordion field over many years. There is a photo montage of the event. The accordion festival is part of the "Milk and Honey” Feast during the Jewish holiday called the Feast of Tabernacel. The Accordion festival has been part of this larger festival since 2004 when accordionist Shmulik Kalosh and his wife Tchiya held the first accordion festival. The event takes place at Kibbuz Yifat situated in the valley of Yizrael in the central part of the country. The festival Director is Maoz Bar-on. The award to Yehuda Oppenheimer honoured over 60 years of accordion activity as an accordion artist and teacher of many generations of accordionists, publisher of many teaching books, albums and original compositions for his beloved instrument, the accordion. Since 1990, an accordion association (initiated by Zeev Axelrod, a pupil of Yehuda) was formed with some hundred members including many teachers artists and lovers of the accordion in Israel. The music played in the Festival was mostly folk-music from the players home countries: Balkan, Russian and of course Israeli. In the festival appeared one of Israel’s finest players, Emil Aibinder who was accompanied by ballalaika and contrabass playing music of the Balkans. Emil Aibinder and another fine artist of Israel, Yevgeni Michalenko with his "Master Quartett” regularly tour internationally. Last but not least, Yehuda, (who even at 83 years of age is still playing well), performed a classical music program including one of his latest compositions "Accordion mon Amour" which is published by MusicForAccordion.com The Featival started at 4 pm with the artistic part ending at 11 pm. Then started the much loved "Community Singing" accompanied by tens of accordionists which lasted until 2 am. |