Aya Korem - Alenu Lo Shirim Shirim
100-120 ₪
Aya Korem presents a new show called 'We Don't Sing Songs Over Us' where she performs famous songs by Nathan Alterman and responds to them with her own new and original songs. In the show, Korem provides a feminine and contemporary response to Alterman's beloved lyrics. The performance offers nostalgia for old Israel combined with a new perspective from the current era.
Aya Korem presents a new show called 'We Don't Sing Songs Over Us' where she performs famous songs by Nathan Alterman and responds to them with her own new and original songs. In the show, Korem provides a feminine and contemporary response to Alterman's beloved lyrics. The performance offers nostalgia for old Israel combined with a new perspective from the current era.
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Aya Korem: We Don't Sing Songs
An imagined conversation with Nathan Alterman
Nathan Alterman, one of the greatest Hebrew writers, if not the greatest, passed away 55 years ago, leaving behind an endless list of unforgettable classic works: "Endless Meeting," "Camp Night," "Urban Evening," "Eliphelet," "Anemones," "The Tune Returns," "Song of the Valley," and many more. His work is so deeply ingrained in the chronicles of local culture that it's unclear what defines what—Alterman with the Hebrew word, or vice versa.
In a new performance, Aya Korem not only performs many beloved songs from Alterman's repertoire but also responds to them with her original new songs: a feminine and contemporary answer to the cherished songs some of which were written almost a century ago. Korem is responsible for the texts—songs that converse with those old ones, offering a new perspective or a daring feminine response to Alterman's very masculine monologue about love, life, and death. Adam Ben Amitai, Korem's regular life and creative partner, is in charge of the music compositions and arrangements.
Recently, Korem released "Eliphelet 2.0," a sequel to the old song "Eliphelet" by Alterman and Argov, offering a different ending to the story where Eliphelet survives the battle, returns home, and struggles to lead a normal life. The song, so relevant to the times, received many airplays and praise from both audiences and the media.
The show "We Don't Sing Songs" includes more "conversations" between the old and the new—"Ancient Tune" receives a gripping response from the woman inside the burning house, and there's also an updated version of "Camp Night," this time from the perspective of women left on the home front, those whom no one will write songs of praise and camaraderie about.
Korem and Ben Amitai have created a performance that is both, yet not only, a beautiful nostalgia for the good old Land of Israel. It is a show intended not just for those who yearn but also offers something new from the here and now—Israel 2025, with all its love and beauty, pain, and mourning.
Participants:
- Lia Ifrah, Yarden Cohen-Brosh - Voices
- Adam Ben Amitai - Guitar and Arrangements
- Aya Kaplan, Alex Ben Ari, Noya Sagiv, Tomer Kemerling - Artistic Consultation
Special thanks to Natan Salor and Itamar Argov
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