Felicia Blumental Music Center & Library, Music center and library in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Felicia Blumental Music Center is a public building in Tel Aviv dedicated to music education and research. It houses a large collection of scores, recordings, and music books alongside performance and study spaces for musicians and researchers.
The music library was founded in 1951 at Beit Shanker by the Ministry of Education and Culture and Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality. After Felicia Blumental's death in 1991 the center was named after her; the old building was demolished in 1994 and replaced by the current one, designed by architect Nili Portugali. The Felicia Blumental Music Center opened in 1997 as a project of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Foundation for Development.
The center serves as a gathering space where musicians and music lovers from different genres meet to study and perform together. The annual festival brings local and international artists together, creating active dialogue between visitors and performers.
The center stands on Bialik Street in central Tel Aviv. Its concert hall seats about 115 people, and the library closed for renovation on 1 September 2021. The building reopened to the public in September 2023 as a home for the city's musicians, with a professional concert hall, a recording-enabled practice room, a gallery, lectures, podcasts and master classes.
The concert hall seats about 115 people, and the center's association founded the annual Felicia Blumental Music Festival at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1999. Concerts in the hall stopped in 2016 over safety and licensing rules, and the association moved to Studio Ant in Kiryat HaMelacha in 2021.
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