From Israel to Colorado Springs: Music is a prayerful dance

Ben-Amots was just six when he dared touch the new piano in his Haifa home. It was love at first sound — and they’ve been married ever since. Fifty-two years later, the world famous composer marvels at the relationship between accident, design and G-d in human destiny. “The story of how that piano arrived at our house is an interesting one,” Ben-Amots explains in the IJN conference room. “My grandfather was Bulgarian and spent three years in an internment camp there during the Holocaust. “In 1961, he was notified that he was entitled to reparation in the form of money, a car or a piano. He wanted the piano.” Ben-Amots, who was born in 1955 in Haifa, started studying the piano at six, gave his […]