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Polyphony Liturgical Festival launches its annual event, drawing local patrons as well as Jewish Israelis seeking holiday spirit and a change of tempo in historic town
Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. Nazareth’s second Liturgical Festival, a three-day feast of religiously-themed classical music, may never have taken place had a Russian immigrant not bartered his piano for a used car some 40 years ago. The festival, which starts Thursday and will run until Sunday, is produced by Polyphony, the first classical music conservatory in Israel’s Arab community, founded by violinist Nabil Abboud Ashkar, whose father traded the family’s used car for the piano. “Nobody played it at first,” said pianist Sal...