{"id":613,"date":"2021-07-24T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/?page_id=613"},"modified":"2021-12-05T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T12:07:07","slug":"zimriya-2021-returning-to-sing-in-acre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/?page_id=613","title":{"rendered":"Zimriya 2021 &#8211; Back to Akko"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%96-2021-768x390.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>About the Zimriya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Music Directors:<\/strong><\/span><br><strong>Ron Gang &amp; Avi Faintoch<\/strong> &#8211; MILA&#8217;s 20<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary<br><strong>Anat Dor <\/strong>&#8211; Youth &amp; Children choirs&#8217; day<br><strong>Mordechai Shalef<\/strong> &#8211; South American Music Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a break of a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic the Zimriya returned to Acre with a colorful festival of choral music. Following its tradition of the past 10 years, the sounds of music and singing returned to the Knights Halls in the Old \u00a0City of Acre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimriya opened on Sunday August 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2021, with an Opening\u00a0Concert in the presence of the Mayor of Acre, Mr. Shimon Lankri and dignitaries of Acre. The concert, led by the Musician, composer and singer Yoni Rechter and his musicians, took place in the yard of the Crusader Knights&#8217; Halls in the Old City\u00a0 of Acre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday the Zimriya saluted &#8220;Mila&#8221; &#8211; the Israeli Center for Choirs &#8211; which celebrated its 20th Anniversary.\u00a0 Hundreds of singers opened the evening concert with the &#8220;Knights&#8217; Singing&#8221; by hundreds of singers from the top of the Crusader&#8217;s Courtyard stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"\u05dc\u05de\u05e2\u05df \u05d0\u05d7\u05d9 \u05d5\u05e8\u05e2\u05d9 - \u05d0\u05e0\u05d2\u05dc\u05d9\u05ea - \u05e4\u05ea\u05d9\u05d7 \u05d7\u05d3\u05e9\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xeACmsEfuik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second day, Monday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> August, hosted &#8211; for the first time in the Zimriya &#8211; more than 250 singers of the best youth and children&#8217;s choirs of the country. \u00a0During that day the children will enjoy musical tours of the Knights\u2019 Halls, workshops, concerts\u00a0and \u201cChoir-to-Choir\u201d singing enabled the singers to mingle and get to know each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the evening, the children choirs joined the evening concert led and performed by David Zeba and four singers of the Israeli Opera. Special guests at the concert were conductor Zoli Frank with singers of 5 of his choirs performing Classical music in a modern style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, August 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, a huge celebration of Latin American music led to\u00a0the closing concert with the \u201cMisa Creola\u201d by Ariel Ramirez with the participation of the Union Choir, The Ensemble of Folklore Latino-American Music and hundreds of singers from the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, there were enrichment workshops and Choir-to-Choir performances throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day at 19:00 there was an outdoor &#8220;Shiluvim&#8221; &#8211; performances in which Israeli and Arab ensembles shared the open stage at the Magical Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Zimriya Music Directors:Ron Gang &amp; Avi Faintoch &#8211; MILA&#8217;s 20th AnniversaryAnat Dor &#8211; Youth &amp; Children choirs&#8217; dayMordechai Shalef &#8211; South American Music Day After a break of a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic the Zimriya returned to Acre with a colorful festival of choral music. Following its tradition of the past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/?page_id=613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zimriya 2021 &#8211; Back to Akko<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-613","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/613\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zimriya.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ffolder&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}