"- A performance of chants ("Piyutim")

Munich – Deutschland – August - 2010



Description:

Carmela Ben Yishay: poetess, chant singer and multi-disciplinary stage performer, presents a musical rang from the Hebrew chants.

The show "My Beloved" includes sacred chants ("Piyutim") from the Hebrew scriptures and folk tunes, Sabbath chants, holiday and celebration songs, presented in the different versions of the Jewish communities: Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Yemenite etc., combined with modern arrangements, as well as chants from Carmela's original poems written and composed in the spirit of traditional chant throughout the generations as a unique phenomenon in the sacred Hebrew chants and songs.



Carmela Ben Yishay - artist's profile

Carmela is poetess, chant writer and multi-disciplinary performer, creating one-man shows that combine singing artistic reading, movement and acting, all based on the personal poems and on the sacred poetry of the ancient chants. In her poetry one can sense a strong affinity to ancient poetry and a tendency towards lyrical style. Her one-man shows have aroused great interest and curiosity both in Israel and abroad, and her poems were translated into English and into other languages.

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