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Culture club meetings

Haifa's museums serve as a warm home for those seeking culture in Haifa, for whom a unique and unusual culture club was established that takes place in the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art.

The club holds fascinating series of meetings for the art-seeking general public, tours in Israel and abroad and screenings of quality films. To this end, we have carefully selected the best shows and instructors, who specialize in the various fields and lead the club members to deepen their knowledge and enjoy it.

3/11/24 Viennese Classics, reenactment of the first public concert

At the meeting we will examine what measures the composer takes, both in building the concert program and in writing the pieces played in it, so that the members of the bourgeois class, who were not used to the musical performances, will start flocking to them, and in this way we will recreate the first public concert.

1/12/24 Fate knocks on Beethoven's door, Fifth Symphony

This monumental work is the result of the revolutionary ideas of
The Enlightenment period at the beginning of the 18th century In this meeting we will examine how Beethoven's personal struggles with his deafness and the social transformations from the seminary of the French Revolution were expressed in one of the most common musical forms - the sonata.

12/1/25 "The German Mozart" – Felix Mendelssohn

Less than two decades after the death of the genius from Salzburg, Germany had the privilege of presenting a creator and performer with such brilliant skills. In this meeting we will examine the formal duality in the works of Felix Mendelssohn, in which, on the one hand, he did not deny the musicality that became one of the distinct symbols of the 19th century for the musical traditions of the 18th century, and on the other hand, he focused on miniatures.

9/2/25 violinist Yitzhak Perlman

What is the secret of the Stradivarius bow? How did it happen that the technological achievements of Western culture in the modern era have not yet provided a worthy musical rival to the musical instruments that were produced more than 300 years ago? In this meeting we will examine these and other issues, reviewing the meteoric and versatile career of one of the greatest musicians of our time.

2/3/25 about sounds and people?! About sounds and women!

Since time immemorial, the women have been considered unconventional participants and not at all
desirable in the music world. Many people do know Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelsohn, but this is mainly due to their familiar surnames.

In this meeting we will examine the sequence of events that led to this discrimination, we will get to know some of the most important female figures in the world of Western music and we will discover how the writer and playwright George Bernard Shaw was able to use some 45 of the most common stereotypes about men and women to re-examine some of the "feminine" in the male composers.

27/4/25 Tchaikovsky - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1

In this session we will get to know the concerto genre. We will review his development from the beginning of the Baroque period to the end of Romanticism, and we will focus on one of the common works in concert halls and the pianist who refused to play, his nose was dedicated from the beginning - all this against the background of the winding life path of one of the greats of the Russian nation.

11/5/25 Composer Aram Khachaturian

During the 19th century, Western European culture began to show a renewed interest in the cultural assets of Southeast Asian countries. In this meeting, we will examine how this trend interacts with the works of the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, who made him one of the most popular composers of the 20th century, who was born in Georgia and lived in Stalinist Russia. We will also listen to some of the compositions.

8/6/25 Dean of American Music Aaron Copland

In this meeting we will dive into the musical world of one of the most fascinating creators of modern times, listen to some of his favorite works and examine how he was able to find the complicated balance between modernism and American folklore, in an attempt to please even the untrained ear of the ordinary listener.

20/7/25 Schubert, The Unfinished Symphony

In this meeting we will examine what is the legality of a work that was not completed by the author.
Is it possible to perform it if it has not reached completion? Is it possible to complete after his death? These and other questions will help us examine a variety of unfinished works in the fields of cinema, literature, architecture, painting, sculpture and... music.

10/8/25 From Classical to Jazz, George Gershwin

George Gershwin spent the best of his years in repeated attempts to turn the spiritual songs of the brown-skinned slaves into the core of North American classical music. In this meeting, we will examine how the skinny Jew from Brooklyn managed to shape American musical culture, and we will listen to some of his masterpieces.

The statement of the CEO, Yotam Yakir, "Culture Club":

The continuation of activity on a regular basis - in the "Culture Club" and in all the museums in Haifa - has been our real strength since October. But even before that the club was for nothing. Just before the summer, in an unusual year, to say the least, we would like to present to you the selection of series for the new season, a season of curiosity and inspiration. The series of lectures we offer are of the highest quality, diverse, thought-provoking and intriguing - at the highest level and led by top-notch lecturers. A great deal of thought and love was put into building the proposed program. We added music, because we have to keep playing.