Haifa Film Festival to honor Greek director
The 28th Haifa International Film Festival, which opens on September 29, will feature a tribute to the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos, who died in January at the age of 76. Angelopoulos was in Athens filming "The Other Sea," envisioned as the third installment of a trilogy on modern Greece that began in 2004 with "The Weeping Meadow" and continued with "The Dust of Time" (2009 ), when he was hit by a motorcycle. (Uri Klein )
Maqam Orchestra to resume concerts after three years
The Israeli Maqam Orchestra, better known as the Mizrahi Orchestra, has resumed activity and is planning a concert series at its new home in Lod next month. The ensemble was founded in 1998 by Prof. Vladimir Sabirov of Bar-Ilan University's center for traditional music, but was largely dormant for the past three years due to funding difficulties. The orchestra performs music from the Andalusian, Persian, Arab, Turkish and Central Asian traditions according to the group's director, Dr. Miriam Gez-Avigal, whose recent appeal to Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat yielded the funds enabling the orchestra's renewal. (Uri Zer Aviv )
Madeleine Peyroux to play Israel
The American jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux will be coming to Israel for a single performance this fall. Peyroux gained fame after her second album, "Careless Love," from 2004, in which she covered songs such as Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love." She will perform at Reading 3 in the Tel Aviv Port on November 11. Peyroux, who honed her style busking in the Paris Metro, appeared in Israel three years ago. (Uri Zer Aviv )
