Shaham and the IPO will also be performing Bedrich Smetana Vlatava (Moldau), Dvorák’s Slavonic dances, and Richard Strauss’s Four Symphonic Interludes from his 1924 comic Opera Intermezzo.
No other top-flight orchestra in the world is so closely identified with its constituency as the Israel Philharmonic.
The series will open in Haifa at the Rappaport Auditorium on March 19 and on March 20 in Tel Aviv at the Charles Bronfman Concert Hall.
A stalwart friend of Israel, it should be a remarkable and uplifting experience to hear and see Mehta and friends again making music together.
The orchestra will perform the choral symphony Dialogues of Love, based on a work by the medieval Jewish rabbi Judah Leone Abarvanel.
The updated program will be Prelude in the Afternoon of Faun by Debussy, the Clarinet Concerto No. 1 by Crussel, and Symphony No. 2 by Johannes Brahms.
IPO likely reached more people than ever before in a concert honoring the victims of the October 7 massacre. The live broadcast “Salute to Israel” was heard around the world.
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