At the Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 1997
On occasion of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 60th Anniversary
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / התזמורת הפילהרמונית
Zubin Mehta – conductor
Israeli National Anthem (HaTikwa)
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The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 60th birthday with a gala concert hosted by Itzhak Perlman, conducted by Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim and includes musicians from the veteran violinist Issac Stern to the younger talents of Maxim Vengerov and Gil Shaham. The concert, taped in Tel Aviv’s Mann Auditorium, features music by Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Brahms and others.
The melody for Hatikvah derives from La Mantovana, a 16th-century Italian song, composed by Giuseppe Cenci (Giuseppino del Biado) ca. 1600 with the text “Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo”. Its earliest known appearance in print was in the del Biado’s collection of madrigals. It was later known in early 17th-century Italy as Ballo di Mantova. This melody gained wide currency in Renaissance Europe, under various titles, such as the Pod Krakowem (in Polish), Cucuruz cu frunza-n sus [Maize with up-standing leaves] (in Romanian) and the Kateryna Kucheryava (in Ukrainian). […] The adaptation of the music for Hatikvah was set by Samuel Cohen in 1888. Cohen himself recalled many years later that he had hummed Hatikvah based on the melody from the song he had heard in Romania, Carul cu boi [The Ox-Driven Cart]. […] As the title “The Hope” and the words suggest, the import of the song is optimistic and the overall spirit uplifting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatikvah