Wanted: A grand piano Singer/songwriter/composer/pianist Shlomi Shaban has agreed to pioneer Maccabi Beer’s first Home Tour, its newest campaign to promote its product. From August 21 Shaban will perform in six different private homes around the country. The one essential ingredient to qualify as a concert host to Shaban’s unique rock/pop music is a grand piano. Access to a computer is also a requirement as all the info for signing up is on www.hometour.co.il and more musical info is on the blog http://haoneg.com/ Shaban, who trained and successfully performed as a classical pianist, shifted focus to rock and pop in 1998.He is also the recipient of the IcExcellence award.• Helen Kaye Angelina Jolie: Pitt a ‘wonderful father’ TOKYO (AP) – Actress Angelina Jolie, in Tokyo for the weekend opening of action thriller Salt, brushed off rumors about her shaky relations with Brad Pitt.“He was just a wonderful father,” she said Tuesday of Pitt, during work on the film, in which she plays a tough spy. He often brought the children to the set, she recalled.“They played with fake blood, and they found mommy very strange in her different hair,” she said.Pitt and Jolie have been partners since they began a relationship while working on the 2005 film Mr. & Mrs.Smith. They are raising six children.Last week, Pitt and Jolie accepted undisclosed damages in London’s High Court to settle a privacy claim against a British tabloid that had reported in January that they were planning to split.Asked about her ability to work and maintain a happy family, Jolie told reporters at a Tokyo hotel: “Brad is the word that makes it possible.”Jolie, who arrived Monday, brought four of the children along on the Japan trip.
Arts in Brief: July 28
The Drums to replace Leftfield on August 31; Jolie on Pitt
Wanted: A grand piano Singer/songwriter/composer/pianist Shlomi Shaban has agreed to pioneer Maccabi Beer’s first Home Tour, its newest campaign to promote its product. From August 21 Shaban will perform in six different private homes around the country. The one essential ingredient to qualify as a concert host to Shaban’s unique rock/pop music is a grand piano. Access to a computer is also a requirement as all the info for signing up is on www.hometour.co.il and more musical info is on the blog http://haoneg.com/ Shaban, who trained and successfully performed as a classical pianist, shifted focus to rock and pop in 1998.He is also the recipient of the IcExcellence award.• Helen Kaye Angelina Jolie: Pitt a ‘wonderful father’ TOKYO (AP) – Actress Angelina Jolie, in Tokyo for the weekend opening of action thriller Salt, brushed off rumors about her shaky relations with Brad Pitt.“He was just a wonderful father,” she said Tuesday of Pitt, during work on the film, in which she plays a tough spy. He often brought the children to the set, she recalled.“They played with fake blood, and they found mommy very strange in her different hair,” she said.Pitt and Jolie have been partners since they began a relationship while working on the 2005 film Mr. & Mrs.Smith. They are raising six children.Last week, Pitt and Jolie accepted undisclosed damages in London’s High Court to settle a privacy claim against a British tabloid that had reported in January that they were planning to split.Asked about her ability to work and maintain a happy family, Jolie told reporters at a Tokyo hotel: “Brad is the word that makes it possible.”Jolie, who arrived Monday, brought four of the children along on the Japan trip.