MusicPanther Hall

Habibi Yessa’ed Awkatu [May My Love’s Days Be Joyous]

Aviv Ezra and Johanna Riethmueller Musical Act

Aviv Ezra and Johanna Riethmueller have been playing and studying Iraqi and Arabic music together for almost seven years. The two have been collaborating in the trio “Radio Baghdad” and with other singers and projects (Riff Cohen, “Ecoute” and others). Their musical practice and discourse are integrated into their daily lives, and lead to inventive collaborations with one another and with other artists and ensembles.

Aviv Ezra is a singer and musician who started learning music on a drum set at the age of eight. For the past twelve years he has been playing and studying Iraqi and classical Arabic music. He is active in the bands “Radio Baghdad” and “The Hallways.” In addition to being a singer, Ezra also plays the drums and Arab percussion instruments, oud and keyboards.

Johanna Riethmueller started playing the violin at a young age in Hamburg, graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music, and has been studying and practicing classical Arabic music since 2010. Riethmueller plays in ensembles and orchestras and in collaborations with top artists. Since 2021, she has been teaching at Musrara New Music Department.

About the work:

We are looking at a broken reality. Rifts between people, between nations. A fragment of culture, fragment of trust, and hope, and a reminder of the possibility of another reality. The rift is in the connection to the past, to the place, to the historical and cultural space in which we live. From our personal and musical reality, we want to pause, to linger in this rift and disconnect and touch the almost impossible connection. To linger in one song, one maqam, one note.

We chose to perform an old Egyptian song originally performed by Umm Kulthum and composed by Zakariyya Ahmad: “Habibi Yessa’ed Awkatu.” This piece was common among Mizrahim in Israel and even among ultra-Orthodox Mizrahim who combined its melody with liturgical texts, in an attempt to bring the beloved music into synagogues. The rift created at this time with Arab culture, among those of the Mizrahi descent and in general, puts us in what we consider an obligation to continue playing the piece, despite the trends of returning to the world of piyyutim and separating the Arabic language from the Jewish musical context.

The musical structures of this type of work, originating in 1930s’ Cairo, allows repetitions and lingering in the musical and textual sentences, in words, in syllables, down to the smallest detail from which the music emanates. We wish to offer the listeners a moment of lingering within that repetition, musical and emotional transcendence, expression of pain, and nostalgia along with the power of understanding our local and geographical cultural complexity.

Wednesday 29.05 20:15
Program Timeline
Yoni Silver
Musical Act
When Women Were Birds
Ruth Wieder Magan and Or Mai
The Calamity Dwellers
Musrara Choir
Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air
Preformed by Modern Ensemble of Musrara New Music Department
Sharon Kantor, Adam Sheflan and Dudik Opp
Experimental Trio of drums and two guitars.
Overwhelmed
Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
Noam Enbar
Musical Act
Nightworld
Zohar Shafir and Kim Teitelbaum
Maqam Music Ensemble
Students from the Department of New Music
Latency
Grisha Shakhnes Musical Act
Internal Destruction
Shaul Dahan Musical Act
Habibi Yessa'ed Awkatu [May My Love's Days Be Joyous]
Aviv Ezra and Johanna Riethmueller Musical Act
Flux Venus Elettrikais
Eryck Abecassis
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
After Musrara Mix
Dark Mix at the Mazkeka with Ron Sheskin
Copy Farm
video installation
Department of Visual Communication
Exhibition
Depressing Video Art from Israel #3
Video art series Curated by Roy Menachem Markovich
Diary
New Media Art First Year Students T
Guided Tours
Holes Opened in The Rhythm of Times
Exhibition
King Solomon Puzzle
Musrara's Photography department Curators: Dafna Ichilov and Tali Romem
Labyrinth – Roger YchaÏ Benichou, 1941–2021
Multidisciplinary exhibition
Out of the Loop
A Night at Barbur Gallery
Spacetime
Projection Mapping course | New Media Art Students
The Department of Photography
Head of the Department and projects curator: Dafna Ichilov
The Whispering Object
Music Department Students Advisor: Niv Gafni
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
What’s Behind the Sky?
Sharon Kantor and Adaya Godlevsky
19:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
Copy Farm
video installation
19:30
MusicPanther Hall
Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air
Preformed by Modern Ensemble of Musrara New Music Department
19:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
19:45
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
19:45
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
19:45
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
20:00
Ground floor
Guided Tours
20:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
20:30
MusicPanther Hall
Nightworld
Zohar Shafir and Kim Teitelbaum
21:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
MusicPanther Hall
The Calamity Dwellers
Musrara Choir
21:15
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
21:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
22:00
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
22:15
MusicPanther Hall
Flux Venus Elettrikais
Eryck Abecassis
22:40
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
17:00
MusicSalesian SIsters Pilgrims' Home
What’s Behind the Sky?
Sharon Kantor and Adaya Godlevsky
19:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
Copy Farm
video installation
19:30
MusicPanther Hall
Overwhelmed
Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
19:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
19:45
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
19:45
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:00
Ground floor
Guided Tours
20:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:00
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
20:15
MusicPanther Hall
Habibi Yessa'ed Awkatu [May My Love's Days Be Joyous]
Aviv Ezra and Johanna Riethmueller Musical Act
20:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
21:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
21:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
21:30
MusicPanther Hall
Latency
Grisha Shakhnes Musical Act
21:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
22:00
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
22:20
MusicPanther Hall
Noam Enbar
Musical Act
22:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
23:00
Music
After Musrara Mix
Dark Mix at the Mazkeka with Ron Sheskin
18:45
MusicPanther Hall
When Women Were Birds
Ruth Wieder Magan and Or Mai
19:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
Copy Farm
video installation
19:30
Ground floor
Guided Tours
19:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
19:30
MusicPanther Hall
When Women Were Birds
Ruth Wieder Magan and Or Mai
19:45
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
19:45
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:00
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
20:15
MusicPanther Hall
Maqam Music Ensemble
Students from the Department of New Music
20:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
21:00
MusicPanther Hall
Sharon Kantor, Adam Sheflan and Dudik Opp
Experimental Trio of drums and two guitars.
21:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
21:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
21:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
22:00
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
22:00
MusicPanther Hall
Internal Destruction
Shaul Dahan Musical Act
22:20
MusicPanther Hall
Yoni Silver
Musical Act
22:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
00:00
Music
Out of the Loop
A Night at Barbur Gallery