Medium is the message
If there was ever a doubt that the medium is the message, you should have been in the audience at Steele Memorial Hall in Phoenix on Tuesday night. Ten vibrant, young Israelis gave voice to the full spectrum of emotions, entrancing their audience for an hour or more with a medley of American show tunes. George Gershwin was the mainstay, along with choice selections from Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and Henry Mancini, ranging from dreamy -- Moon River -- to sweet -- Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- to romantic -- The Way You Look Tonight -- to rousing -- I Am on My Way. It was a trip down memory lane for much of the audience, who thoroughly enjoyed both the selection of the American songs and the thoroughly Israeli performers.
The group, second year students at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Ramat-Gan, Israel, were in the Valley as part of a city delegation to Phoenix sponsored by the Phoenix Sister Cities Ramat-Gan Committee. The delegation’s whirlwind tour included meetings with city officials, city tours and a weekend trip to the Grand Canyon. The April 27 concert was the centerpiece of their visit, along with an appearance at the community Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration the Sunday before. Tina Robbins, Ramat-Gan committee chair, oversaw arrangements from start to finish along with a raft of enthusiastic volunteers who supplied food, housing and transportation with a generous helping of warm Southwest hospitality.
The students, joining the Phoenix Sister Cities Commission for lunch the day before they departed, expressed deep appreciation for the outpouring of support from the community. Noa Carmel and Ofri Green were overwhelmed with the welcome. “Everyone is so nice and warm,” said Green, who along with Carmel hopes to make a career on the stage or screen. “Very special,” is how Carmel described their visit.
But it was Ran Guzi, another member of the group, who expressed what the exceedingly talented performers hoped to convey through their music and heartfelt performance. Their songs, some sung in English, others in Hebrew, connected the American audience to the Israelis in ways that mere words cannot. “I know the songs, you know the songs, and that makes a connection,” he said. “We bring the audience closer.” The music creates a bridge, said Guzi. And he and the others in the group provided a means for crossing that bridge and accessing both the very vibrancy of Israeli life and the very basic emotions we all share. “It says something about everyone,” he said.
It is a message that comes straight from the medium -- and from the heart.
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