On Sunday, the world of culture suffered a heavy blow along with the news of the death of Zvika Pick, the maestro, who was responsible for dozens of hits that will forever be the assets of Iron Sheep. Iris Cole spoke on 103FM with the esteemed director Tsadi Sarfati who paid tribute to Pick and recalled the first time they met, at the audition for the musical “Hair”, which was also the singer’s big breakthrough.
“It’s a terrible market. I admit that I crashed when I heard that, I was in the middle of rehearsals. There was a guy standing next to me who had just finished making a documentary about him. He told me every day, ‘I need to film Zvika a little more,’ he did enough but not what he wanted . He said, ‘Look what this is, the film at work.’ We were both in a kind of market, shock.”
Regarding their first meeting at the auditions for the musical “Hair”, he said: “He was really a different bird, unlike anything that was here. In the 70s we suddenly discovered someone new. He started at ‘Hair’, where I first met him 50 years ago. They There were the trio of chocolates, and somehow they were looking for all kinds of people. I think Ehud heard about them and all three of them came to the audition, the director chose all three of them for the main roles. I had already been in the theater for several years, and I joined a team of young people, and suddenly I see a guy who has never acted, he is playing The main role, you open your mouth and you get a shank. There was something strong in his voice, he looked a little different, something out of place, he was tall, very pale, long hair, cheekbones, something different.”
“I realized while rehearsing, I was full of admiration for the confidence and silence, it was exactly Tzvika. He was very connected to himself, he went on stage and was not the type who before going on stage was afraid, he would go up and explode. It’s amazing. At first I discovered him as a performer, who would have thought He will be a composer? One of the most important composers we have,” he added.
Another French shared that “I had even an unclear chemistry, we weren’t gossiping friends, but there was something. We sat for five years in ‘A Star Is Born’, next to each other. He always sat next to me. We never argued, there was mutual respect and fun. Always I said that when she was next to me, I felt calm. He was funny, but I never saw him really nervous, if he was nervous it was for five minutes. Everything came easily to him.”
“Mainly what captured the audience was his materials, materials that survived everything. There were years when they didn’t even believe in him, a lot of people didn’t believe in him, mocked him. The one who didn’t give up was the songs, they were much stronger than him. Even after he had a bad period The songs survived, he beat everyone with the songs. Everyone connects to these songs, everywhere you put a Zvika Pick song and it still works to this day,” said a tribute to him.