by Ehud Krinis
The Salem
village music center near Nablus was visited Saturday, October 15th, 2011, by
American jazz harpist Park Stickney http://olgp.com
who is here for the opening of the Jaffa Harp Festival. Festival initiator
harpist Sunita Staneslow and her spouse Fred Schlomka of Green Olive Tours informed Park about the
Salem center and he decided to include it in this - his first - visit.
 Park Stickney |
During his
visit at the center, Park held a two-hour study workshop that opened with a
presentation of the harp, a musical instrument new and unfamiliar to the
students and teachers both. Most of the workshop was devoted to learning a well
known jazz standard - "Cantaloupe Island". This was the center
students' first encounter with this musical style. In teaching the tune, Park
was assisted by teachers of the center and other musicians, among them Dr. Ruti
Katz from the Arts High School in Tel Aviv who has been closely tied with the
center for the past year, and Josh Smith, a new immigrant from the United
States.
Itamar and Noam - both student musicians from the high school who have
already visited the center at Salem several times in the past - also took part
in the workshop. In the closing part of the workshop, students at the center
played some items from their own repertoire for the guest artist. They were
joined by Yusef, the singing barber from Salem and his daughter Shireen (singer
and student at the music center) in some Palestinian folk singing.
Itamar and Noam - both student musicians from the high school who have
already visited the center at Salem several times in the past - also took part
in the workshop. In the closing part of the workshop, students at the center
played some items from their own repertoire for the guest artist. They were
joined by Yusef, the singing barber from Salem and his daughter Shireen (singer
and student at the music center) in some Palestinian folk singing.
Park's visit
at the Salem Music Center joins a series of visits by musicians from abroad and
from Israel. This activity aims to open and widen the musical horizons of the
students at the center, raise public awareness of the existence and activity of
this small center and create new ties between the center and its teachers and
musicians who show interest in them.
Ehud Krinis is a member of the Villages Group.
Ehud Krinis is a member of the Villages Group.
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