The Atar Piano Trio Performs To the Bird From a Distant Land

The Atar Trio, led by pianist/arranger Ofer Shelley, together with the sparkling soprano Tali Ketsef, performs their program In the Pool with Bialik at Studio Annette in Tel Aviv. Born in Ukraine, Chaim Nachman Bialik lived as a young man for some years in Odessa before eventually immigrating to Tel Aviv following sojourns in Poland and Germany. Writing in Yiddish and Hebrew, and  considered by many to be Israel’s national poet, Bialik’s emotional lyrics are suffused with longing. This program includes my commissioned trio To the Bird from a Distant Land, a response to Bialik’s iconic poem To the Bird. The program includes a stellar lineup of settings of a number of Bialik’s poems by distinguished composers Josef Bardanashvili, Tsippi Fleischer, Aaron Harlap and Alex Wasserman, among others, and additional selections arranged by Ofer Shelley.