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The Jerusalem International Oud Festival, which takes place for the 27th time, under the aegis of Confederation House, November 5-12, has certainly seen a thing or two over the years.Back in 2000 it was a modest two-day affair when home venue CEO and artistic director Effie Benaya managed to coax an oud player from Morocco over here. The audiences at Confederation House, quite a few of whom imbibed Arabic music with their mother\u2019s milk back in Iraq, Morocco, and elsewhere around the Arab domain, enjoyed the shows immensely. It was a much-appreciated blast from the past for them.In the meantime, their offspring \u2013 second and third generations \u2013 and plenty of Ashkenazi Israelis have jumped on the Arabic music bandwagon, and festival attendees now spread far and wide across the demographic range.Benaya, naturally, kept tabs on the festival\u2019s growth, and, as in other fields of musical endeavor, the delineating programmatic lines have ebbed and shifted.Stellar crowd-pullersThe curtain-raiser sets out the crossover stall from the word go. The first thing that springs to mind is that Benaya has gone for star value, with the Jerusalem Theatre show (November 5, 9 p.m.) featuring internationally renowned Iraqi-rooted Israeli rocker Dudu Tassa paired with Jonny Greenwood of famed English rock band Radiohead.World-famous British rock guitarist Jonny Greenwood joins Israeli ethnically-leaning rocker Dudu Tassa in the festival opener. (credit: LIOR KETER)If Benaya was looking to put bums on seats, he has surely hit the jackpot here. Radiohead has been one of the world\u2019s biggest rock acts for over 40 years, and Tassa has been a regular on the global ethnic-leaning rock and festival circuit for well over a decade.This is something of a supergroup matchup, with the front pair set to play material from their 2023 album Jarak Qaribak, with additional numbers from Tassa\u2019s Al-Kuwaiti projects. They feed off music written and performed by Tassa\u2019s grandfather and great-uncle, Daoud and Salleh Al-Kuwaiti, who were particular favorites of Iraq\u2019s last king, Faisal II, and big shots across the Arab music scene.The grand production sees Tassa and Greenwood backed by 15 instrumentalists and two vocalists.With expectations high and tickets hard to come by, Benaya has added another concert to the festival program, with the feted twosome due to strut their stuff for a second time at the same venue, on November 6 (12:45 p.m.).Happily and, it must be said in the current international political climate, surprisingly, Benaya has managed to work a couple of offshore items into the programmatic fabric, including Greek singers Babis Tsertos, 70, and Areti Ketime, 37.Their ethnic folk music show features rebetiko, the Greek blues, along with Smyrneika, brought \u2013 as the name suggests \u2013 to Greek shores by refugees from the Turkish cosmopolitan port city of Smyrna and its hinterland in Asia Minor in the early 20th century.Choreographer Orly Portal\u2019s Rite of Spring dance production was inspired by legendary Syrian-Egyptian singer-oud player-composer Farid al-Atrash. (credit: RAVIT ZIV)Lovers of Indian music will, no doubt, be buoyed by the inclusion of the Triveni date at the Jerusalem Theatre on November 10 (9 p.m.).This is a truly top-notch concert with the stellar trio of bansuri (bamboo flute) player Rakesh Chaurasia, sitar player Purbayan Chatterjee, and tabla player Ojas Adhiya.This is an Oud Festival reprise for Chaurasia, whose uncle, now 88-year-old iconic bansuri player Hariprasah Chaurasia, also lent his silky skills to the Confederation House-based event, while Chatterjee makes his debut at the festival. This will, however, be his second working trip to Israel, having performed in Tel Aviv and Haifa in 2007 as part of a series of events marking the 15th anniversary of Israeli-Indian diplomatic relations.Quality Indian musicThe Triveni concert looks like a top-class offering to be relished. Chaurasia is hailed as a master of the bansuri, and has several Grammys in his trophy cabinet, while Chatterjee has been dubbed \u201cIndia\u2019s leading sitar maestro.\u201d He is also gearing up for the 2027 Grammy Award with his new release, Feathered Creatures, in the running for a coveted slot.The record is a collaborative venture with five-time Grammy-winning American guitarist Mark Lettieri, who plays with celebrated jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy.After just a few seconds into the opening track of the album, it becomes patently clear that 50-year-old Chatterjee is just as happy delving into such diverse sonic waters as rock, hip-hop, jazz, blues, and even Western classical music as performing more spiritually leaning and ostensibly tranquil ragas from the traditional Indian side of the music tracks.Watching him do his thing on YouTube, with tabla player Vivek Pandya, or alongside Chaurasia at the 2022 Darbar Festival in London, you cannot fail to discern that Chatterjee is well versed in the intricacies of Hindustani classical material from northern India.He is a true virtuoso who can reel off white-hot riffs, producing seamless cascading arpeggios at the speed of light, but is not averse to performing more pedestrian, reflective passages. All the above will be rolled out for the Oud Festival attendees.Chatterjee maintains a balanced eclectic approach to his craft and follows the tenet that anything musical is fair game and can be incorporated into his vast repertoire of sounds and styles.\u201cI think that in order to truly discover the essence of something, you have to look at it from the external world,\u201d he suggests.That non-purist ethos got me thinking, and listening to my interviewee even more attentively. \u201cYou have to stray. You have to allow yourself to stray and fall in love elsewhere, and come back. That\u2019s exactly the relationship I have with raga music.\u201dIt is, he says, a philosophy borne of experience.\u201cWhen I started off this journey \u2013 which is now many years old \u2013 I was very monogamous,\u201d he chuckles. \u201cI was faithful to this raga music, and I was told it was a sin to stray into anything else. That\u2019s the atmosphere I was brought up in.\u201dThat, presumably, was the line taken by his father, sitar-playing Parthapratim Chatterjee, and Purbayan\u2019s principal source of inspiration, late distinguished sitar player Nikhil Banerjee.Chatterjee duly put in the requisite shifts to hone his technical skills on the demanding instrument but, over time, also painstakingly developed his own ideas for carving out his niche in his professional timeline. It was time to take a leap of faith.\u201cI slowly realized that I couldn\u2019t truly love my own kind of music unless I allowed myself to fall in love with every other kind of music; unless I allowed myself to understand every other musical idiom, every other musical language.\u201dVoyage of discoveryIt was a voyage of discovery, and required plenty of sifting and sorting en route to arrive at some kind of distilled \u2013 albeit highly varified and generously proportioned \u2013 musical sphere in which Chatterjee felt he could explore, imbibe, and eventually present to his audiences.\u201cThere are things that you kind of reject along the way,\u201d he notes. \u201cYou think, well, this is not for me. But eventually, when I came back to the [Indian classical] music, I discovered who I was.\u201dHe had arrived at the core of his craft.\u201cI believe that any form of art is finally about that. It is about getting to a sense of who you are.\u201dEven so, that hard-earned epiphany isn\u2019t set in stone. \u201cWho you are is constantly changing.\u201dThe go-with-the-flow sensibility is also central to Indian classical music, despite initial appearances.\u201cIndian ragas are very serene, and a lot of the raga music, and raga-based concerts, is about storytelling,\u201d Chatterjee explains.But there is a flip side. \u201cToo often, Indian music is described as serene and spiritual and divine, which it is,\u201d he exclaims. \u201cBut there is also a sense of ecstasy which lies within that divinity, and a sense of virtuosity and exhilaration, a sense of self-discovery in the moment of exhilaration.\u201dI came to the unmistakable conclusion that, similar to late modern jazz pioneer drummer Max Roach, who once told me, simply and poignantly, that \u201cmusic is just music,\u201d Chatterjee does not take a hierarchical route to music appreciation and sonic practice. He calls out a roll of late musical pantheon members.\u201cIt could be [rock guitarist] Jimi Hendrix, [Indian sitar master] Ravi Shankar, [Indian tabla wizard] Zakir Hussain, or [rock guitarist Eddie] Van Halen. That sense of exhilaration, and the pain of not being able to discover and then the exhilaration of being able to discover, are all part of that entire spectrum which you need to explore.\u201dChatterjee says he is still finding his way across that rocky, enriching terrain. \u201cI feel there is more to find, but I am at a point in my journey where I am able to at least see the larger picture, as it were.\u201dConsidering his instrumental prowess and his ability to mix it with fellow artists who, seemingly, have little in common with the likes of Chatterjee, who \u201csimply\u201d sit there on the stage and play their music, sometimes for hours on end, his appreciation for ostensibly extraneous art forms is surprising and impressive.Instruments for allAs the Feathered Creatures venture clearly shows, Chatterjee has no problem with culling sounds from every which place and culture and bringing them into the Indian fold.Still, he does have a left-field-leaning view of the means employed to put the bottom musical line together. I asked whether, for example, he considers the drum kit or electric guitar acceptable for his line of work.\u201cI think the drum is a traditional instrument,\u201d he chuckles. \u201cI think the electric guitar is the most traditional instrument there is,\u201d he adds even more surprisingly. That may be because the music business as a whole and musical tastes have changed over the years. \u201cYou ask a teenager, they will tell you that is the most traditional instrument.\u201dThat might be challenging for Chatterjee and his ilk. \u201cNine out of ten Indian teenagers will tell you they are most familiar with the electric guitar. I am not so sure about the sitar.\u201dChatterjee adopts a philosophical oxymoronic view of that state of affairs. \u201cIt\u2019s a little sad, but, at the same time, it is also cathartic. There is a great deal of influence of Western pop culture [in India today], which I can understand.\u201dHe says, in fact, fusion has been the name of the game almost from the off. \u201cIf you look at the sitar itself, it is the result of a collision of two distinct cultures and religions,\u201d he notes, referencing the powerful impact of Persian music and culture that informed the evolution of music across numerous ethnic and cultural demarcation lines.\u201cI am very proud to be Indian because we\u2019ve allowed for that for many centuries now. We have allowed the culture to slowly percolate, especially in the north of India. The sitar is the result of the setar, which comes from Persia, colliding with the veena, which is the fountainhead of Indian string instruments.\u201dThat broad base has led to a flexibility of musicianship and intent, and the sitar eventually also found its way into Western consciousness, primarily following Shankar\u2019s performance at the seminal 1967 Monterey Pop Festival in California, where he played with Zakir Hussain\u2019s father, peerless tabla player Alla Rakha, with Hendrix happily grooving away in the audience of predominantly hippies and rock and pop fans.There was also the earlier discovery of the sitar by the Beatles\u2019 George Harrison, who studied with Shankar, and incorporated its captivating textures and otherworldly sounds into such beloved numbers as \u201cNorwegian Wood.\u201dChatterjee\u2019s accommodating, free-flowing view of music notwithstanding, the Triveni show will not come with billowing dry ice, strobe lighting, and gigantic video screens. It will be just about the music and, as Chatterjee, puts it, the pure ecstasy of the road to new sonic and emotional vistas, as the trio takes its audience for the best kind of ride.The rest of the Oud Festival program offers plenty of quality. Percussion player Itamar Doari\u2019s show at the Khan Theater (November 10, 9 p.m.) is also one to look out for, and feted singer-songwriter pianist Shlomi Shaban mixes it, on November 11 at 9 p.m., with internationally renowned kemancha (spike violin) player Mark Eliyahu and the Kadosh Brothers threesome, which colors its Arabic music base with heaping helpings of jazz and rock.Festival stalwart violinist-oud player Prof. Taiseer Elias will delve into classical Arabic music with mandolin player Shmuel Elbaz (November 7, 9 p.m.), while the confluence of dazzling Andalusian-leaning jazz pianist Omri Mor and 83-year-old, east-west fusion pioneering percussionist-vocalist Shlomo Bar, on November 8 at 9 p.m., promises fireworks aplenty.Choreographer Orly Portal\u2019s Rite of Spring dance production (November 12, 8:30 p.m.) was inspired by late legendary Syrian-Egyptian singer, oud player and composer Farid al-Atrash, and veteran mizrachi-pop-rock band Teapacks stars in the finale, on November 12 at 9 p.m., supported by the 12-piece The Hafla and Hora Orchestra.\uf06eFor tickets and more information: *6226, tickets.bimot.co.il, and www.confederationhouse.orgFollow us on Google" ], "output": "readability", "pwd": "/data/archive/1792836306.823592", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-10-24T13:29:12.175368+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ], "screenshot": [], "singlefile": [], "title": [ { "cmd": [ "curl", "--silent", "--location", "--compressed", "--max-time", "120", "--user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) curl/curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)", "https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-912559" ], "cmd_version": "curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)", "end_ts": "2026-10-24T13:29:12.167527+00:00", "index_texts": null, "output": "Oud of this world: The 27th annual Jerusalem Int'l Oud Festival raises curtains | The Jerusalem Post", "pwd": "/data/archive/1792836306.823592", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-10-24T13:29:12.128212+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ], "wget": [ { "cmd": [ "wget", "--no-verbose", "--adjust-extension", "--convert-links", "--force-directories", "--span-hosts", "--no-parent", "-e", "robots=off", "--reject=js,mjs,woff,woff2,ttf,otf,eot,mp4,m4v,mov,webm,ogv,mkv,avi,flv", "--timeout=120", "--restrict-file-names=windows", "--page-requisites", "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) wget/GNU Wget 1.21.3", "--compression=auto", "--timestamping", "https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-912559" ], "cmd_version": "GNU Wget 1.21.3", "end_ts": "2026-10-24T13:29:12.119607+00:00", "index_texts": null, "output": "www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-912559.html", "pwd": "/data/archive/1792836306.823592", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-10-24T13:29:10.126575+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ] }, "icons": null, "is_archived": true, "is_static": false, "latest": { "archive_org": null, "dom": null, "favicon": "favicon.ico", "git": null, "media": null, "pdf": null, "screenshot": null, "singlefile": null, "title": "Oud of this world: The 27th annual Jerusalem Int'l Oud Festival raises curtains | The Jerusalem Post", "warc": null, "wget": "www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-912559.html" }, "link_dir": "/data/archive/1792836306.823592", "newest_archive_date": "2026-10-24T13:29:14.124228+00:00", "num_failures": 0, "num_outputs": 6, "oldest_archive_date": "2026-10-24T13:29:09.291970+00:00", "path": "/israel-news/culture/article-912559", "schema": "Link", "scheme": "https", "snapshot_id": "9a75d9d2-e17a-44c2-a5ec-154fc1be19fd", "sources": [ "/data/sources/1792836306-import.txt" ], "tags": ",pool,escalation,war-wiki", "tags_str": "pool,escalation,war-wiki", "timestamp": "1792836306.823592", "title": "Oud of this world: The 27th annual Jerusalem Int'l Oud Festival raises curtains | The Jerusalem Post", "updated": "2026-10-24T13:29:09.291550+00:00", "updated_date": "2026-10-24 13:29", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-912559" }