Date: Dec 26, 1991 Abstract (Document Summary)
The shows and album therefore mix hot sets where [Gil Dor, Nini]'s voice and Dor's guitar get to do their flying trapeze acts, alongside quiet numbers like She Went to the River, a somber, Judy Collins-style ballad written by Nini. And of course there is the haunting Uri based on a poem by Israeli poet Rahel, about a barren young woman's prayer for a son.
Nini read the poem in a book of Rahel's verse, given to her by [Asher]. "It's beautiful, it's all breathtaking, but there's such a deep darkness, a sadness that come from her life that was so difficult. I am a person of light, a positive, optimistic person, so I was looking for hope in her poems, and I found some hope in this one. There is an immense amount of beauty in its sadness, and finding beauty in sadness is rare. "And there is simplicity, and the beautiful last line where she says: OK, I'll pray like Rahel and wait like Hanna, but I will wait. Maybe I'll have him in another life, maybe I'll have him in the form of a poem that I've written. And I love that. So I wrote music to it, and Gil loved it, and it became popular."
Nini is still largely influenced by [Paul Simon], who she says "is like God." She vows to meet him "and he'll listen to my music, too, by hook or by crook." Other Nini favorites are Sting and [Joni Mitchell]. "For me, she's a real symbol, a person who developed from real straight folk music to jazz which is undoubtedly her sound, which is what I'm striving for - to try to combine my ethnic side, my American side, and my Israeli side into something which is just me."
