OUR MUSIC-LOVING FRIENDS,

Since the dawn of humanity, music has been a connecting and unifying factor between men and women sitting huddled around the tribal fire. Music is not a separate and distinct art, but a crossroads into which all other arts flow inwards and outwards – dance, poetry, theater, painting and the written word. Music is a universal melting pot, an international language that does not need to be taught and is inherently perceived in the mind and especially in the heart.

Likewise, for us at the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, music is a tool that connects different human eras and cultures in myriad hues and shades of human creation. As in the past 30 seasons, we concocted for you a fascinating journey through periods and cultures – from the operatic masterpiece of Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, “Don Giovanni”, through the best European classics of the 19^th century, continuing with Musical classics and finally in exciting premieres by young composers such as Keren Kagarlitsky, Maya Brenner, Avner Dorman, Gil Shohat, Mayu Shviro and Guy Mintus.

This year, too, we will create synergies on stage between music and theater in the traditional End-of-the-Year concert in collaboration with the Habima Theater. Dance, more than any other art, relies on music and is an integral part of it. At the beginning of the season we will see the dancer Rotem Weissman and in the middle of the season we will host dancers from Palermo’s Teatro Masismo Palermo, with a choreography created especially for the orchestra for a unique encounter here in Raanana.

We wish our loyal and loving audience much pleasure and excitement from the fascinating and unique journey we have prepared for you – the Music Director, Omer Meir Wellber, the Conductor-in-Residence, David Sebba, the Associate Music Director, Keren Kagarlitsky and the orchestra’s General Manager, Orit Fogel Shafran.