Noam Ben-Zeev
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Noam Ben-Zeev (b. 1954) is an Israeli music critic & journalist, educator and lecturer, active in the music scene in Israel since the beginning of the 1990s.
[edit] Music journalism
Mr. Ben-Zeev has been the music critic and music journalist of Haaretz Daily Newspaper since 1992, and a member of the editorial staff since 1996. During that time he has published more than 3500 aticles, reviews, columns, editorials, news items and interviews. In his journalistic writing Mr. Ben-Zeev concetrates on 20th Century and contemporary music, the sociological aspects of music, music education, and Israeli & Jewish music. He has traveled widely and reported from London, Berlin, Palermo, New York, Beijing, Istanbul, Seoul, Paris, Rome and Sevilla - among other places. In his Haaretz writings, Noam Ben-Zeev has been giving special voice to the Palestinian musical scene as well, within Israel and in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. For almost a decade he has reported consistently from Gaza, Jenin, Nablus, Bethlehem and Ramallah, writing about music education in Palestine, reviewing concerts, interviewing musicians, and thus mirroring the current developments in Palestinian musical life.
[edit] Teaching, writings, films
Since 1990 Mr. Ben-Zeev has been teaching music history and music education in various schools, among them Alon High School for the Arts and Sciences (1990-2006), Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts (1992-1995) and the University of Haifa (since 2002). In addition to his Haaretz publications he has written one book, a concise textbook on the history of music called Five Glances at Music (1998, Sal Tarbut Artzi), and is currently working on a second book, on music and society in Israel and Palestine: A Hebrew-Arab Melody (2008, Hakibbutz Hamehuchad publishing house). Mr. Ben-Zeev cooperated with director Reuven Hecker as a musical advisor on two documentary films about music: Luciano Berio (2000; 59 min., video), a portrait of the late contemporary Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925-2003), shot throughout Italy and at the Salzburg Festival; and Go in Peace, Rain (2007; Hebrew: Lekh Leshalom Geshem; 90 min., video), a film which follows an ancient Jewish lithurgical melody and thus reflects a diminishing musical culture of Sephardic Synagogue music. This film was shot throughout Spain, France, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Rumania, England, the Netherlands, and Italy.
[edit] External links
Selected articles
• Shostakovich's Muse [1]
• Come to the Terezin Cabaret [2]
• Scaling the heights once more [3]
• Trapped Notes [4]
A compilation of Haaretz articles on Palestinian music life [5]
Films: music advisor
