May 12, 2024 data-filter="[2024 05|][jones-hall|][May|][[{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Symphony Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:33,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:2304,|name|:|2023\u201324|,|slug|:|2023-24|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:2304,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]"
In this special performance, Houston Symphony Artistic Partner Itzhak Perlman presents his collection of traditional klezmer music, In the Fiddler’s House. Released more than 25 years ago, the album became a PBS special that earned Perlman his third Emmy Award. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Itzhak Perlman|,|bio|:|Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his talent, he is treasured by audiences throughout the world who respond not only to his remarkable artistry, but also to his irrepressible joy for making music.\nHaving performed with every major orchestra and at venerable concert halls around the globe, Itzhak was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation\u2019s highest civilian honor, in November 2015 by President Obama for his meritorious contributions to cultural endeavors of the United States and for being a powerful advocate for people of disabilities. In 2016, he received the Genesis Prize in recognition for his exceptional contributions as a musician, teacher, advocate for individuals with special needs, and dedication to Jewish values. In 2003, he was granted a Kennedy Center Honor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in celebration of his distinguished achievements and contributions to the cultural and educational life of the United States. President Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Arts in 2000, and President Reagan honored him with a Medal of Liberty in 1986.\nItzhak has performed multiple times at the White House, most recently in 2012, at the invitation of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama, for Israeli President and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Shimon Peres; and at a State Dinner in 2007, hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush, for Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. In 2009, he was honored to take part in the Inauguration of President Obama, premiering a piece written for the occasion by John Williams alongside cellist Yo-Yo Ma, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and pianist Gabriela Montero, for an audience of nearly 40 million television viewers in the United States and millions more throughout the world.\nBorn in Israel in 1945, Itzhak completed his initial training at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. An early recipient of an America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship, he came to New York and soon was propelled to national recognition with an appearance on the\u00a0Ed Sullivan\u00a0Show in 1958. Following his studies at The Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay, he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition in 1964, which led to a burgeoning worldwide career.\u00a0Since then, Itzhak Perlman has established himself as a cultural icon and household name in classical music.\nIn June 2019, Masterclass.com, the premier online education company that enables access to the world\u2019s most brilliant minds, including Gordon Ramsay, Wolfgang Puck, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Helen Mirren, Jodie Foster, and Serena Williams, premiered its first-ever classical-music class taught by Itzhak. Available exclusively at www.masterclass.com\/ip, his class offers students an intimate and inspirational approach to the world of violin where he covers fundamental techniques, practice strategies, and ways to build a richer sound.\nItzhak has further delighted audiences through his frequent appearances on the conductor\u2019s podium.\u00a0He has performed as conductor with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Houston, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Montreal, and Toronto, as well as at the Ravinia and Tanglewood festivals. He was music advisor of the St. Louis Symphony from 2002 to 2004, where he made regular conducting appearances, and he was principal guest conductor of the Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005. Internationally, he has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic.\nIn the 2019-20 season, Itzhak embarked on a debut tour of a new program entitled \u201cAn Evening with Itzhak Perlman\u201d which captures highlights of his career through narrative and multi-media elements, intertwined with performance. The tour goes to Penn State, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, McCallum Theatre Palm Desert, Mesa Arts Center, Artis-Naples, and the State Theatre New Jersey. On the orchestral front, Perlman makes appearances with the Israel Philharmonic in Zubin Mehta\u2019s final appearances as music director and performs with the Baltimore Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Charlotte Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Toledo Symphony, and Colorado Springs Philharmonic. Throughout the season, he plays recitals with his longtime collaborator, Rohan De Silva, across North America in Northridge (Los Angeles), Costa Mesa, Rohnert Park (Sonoma County), Seattle, Spokane, Greenville, Knoxville, a Florida tour, and the NYC region. During the summer, he led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in an all-Tchaikovsky program at the Ravinia Festival.\n2018 marked the 60th\u00a0anniversary of Itzhak Perlman\u2019s U.S. debut and appearance on the\u00a0Ed Sullivan\u00a0Show, which took place on November 2, 1958. This milestone was celebrated with a return to the Ed Sullivan Theater on November 2, 2018, in a special guest appearance on\u00a0The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\nFurther to his engagements as violinist and conductor, Itzhak is increasingly making more appearances as a speaker. Recent speaking engagements include appearances in Texas at Lamar University, South Dakota with the John Vucurevich Foundation, Washington, D.C. for the Marriott Foundation and New York, in conversations with Alan Alda at the 92nd\u00a0Street Y and Alec Baldwin at New York University.\nA recent award-winning documentary, titled\u00a0Itzhak, premiered in October 2017 as the opening film of the 25th\u00a0Annual Hamptons International Film Festival. It was released theatrically in more than 100 cinemas nationwide in March 2018, with international releases that followed in Summer 2018. Directed by filmmaker Alison Chernick, the enchanting documentary details the virtuoso\u2019s own struggles as a polio survivor and Jewish \u00e9migr\u00e9 and is a reminder why art is vital to life. Visit\u00a0www.itzhakthefilm.com\u00a0for more information. In October 2018, the film made its debut on PBS\u2019\u00a0American Masters\u00a0in a broadcast throughout the United States.\nItzhak\u2019s recordings have garnered 16 Grammy Awards and regularly appear on the best-seller charts. In 2008, he was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the recording arts.\nHis most recent album features him in a special collaboration with Martha Argerich. Released in 2016 by Warner Classics, it marked an historic first studio album for this legendary duo exploring masterpieces by Bach, Schumann, and Brahms. It had been 18 years since their first album, a live recital from the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. On that momentous occasion in 1998, in addition to recording the material for their initial disc, the pair recorded Schumann\u2019s Violin Sonata No. 1. The Schumann Sonata at long last was released in 2016 alongside new material, making the album a fascinating \u201cthen and now\u201d portrait of how two living legends have evolved musically.\nItzhak recorded a bonus track for the original cast recording of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of\u00a0Fiddler on the Roof, released on Broadway Records in March 2016. The cast recording features him on a track titled \u201cExcerpts from Fiddler on the Roof,\u201d arranged by John Williams.\nThe year 2015 brought three record releases in celebration of his 70th\u00a0birthday: a new Deutsche Grammophon album with pianist Emanuel Ax performing Faur\u00e9 and Strauss Sonatas, a 25-disc box set of his complete Deutsche Grammophon and Decca discography, and a 77-disc box set of his complete EMI\/Teldec discography titled\u00a0Itzhak Perlman: The Complete Warner Recordings.\nIn 2012, Sony released\u00a0Eternal Echoes: Songs & Dances for the Soul, featuring a collaboration with acclaimed cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot in liturgical and traditional Jewish arrangements for chamber orchestra and klezmer musicians, and in 2010, Sony released a recording of Mendelssohn Piano Trios with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax. Highlights of albums over the last two decades have included a Deutsche Grammophon album with Itzhak conducting the Israel Philharmonic, a live recording with Martha Argerich performing Beethoven and Franck Sonatas (EMI);\u00a0Cinema Serenade\u00a0featuring popular hits from movies with John Williams conducting (Sony);\u00a0A la Carte, a recording of short violin pieces with orchestra (EMI), and\u00a0In the Fiddler\u2019s House, a celebration of klezmer music (EMI) that formed the basis of the PBS television special. In 2004, EMI released\u00a0The Perlman Edition, a limited-edition 15-CD box set featuring many of his finest EMI recordings as well as newly compiled material, and RCA Red Seal released a CD titled\u00a0Perlman reDiscovered, which includes material recorded in 1965 by a young Itzhak Perlman.\nOther recordings reveal his devotion to education, including\u00a0Concertos from my Childhood\u00a0with the Juilliard Orchestra under Lawrence Foster (EMI) and\u00a0Marita and her Heart\u2019s Desire, composed and conducted by Bruce Adolphe (Telarc).\nA major presence in the performing arts on television, Itzhak Perlman has been honored with four Emmy Awards, most recently for the PBS documentary\u00a0Fiddling for the Future, a film about his work as a teacher and conductor for the Perlman Music Program. In 2004, PBS aired a special entitled\u00a0Perlman in Shanghai\u00a0that chronicled an historic and unforgettable visit of the Perlman Music Program to China, featuring interaction between American and Chinese students and culminating in a concert at the Shanghai Grand Theater and a performance with 1,000 young violinists, led by Itzhak and broadcast throughout China. His third Emmy Award recognized his dedication to klezmer music, as profiled in the 1995 PBS television special\u00a0In the Fiddler\u2019s House, which was filmed in Poland and featured him performing with four of the world\u2019s finest klezmer bands.\nHe has entertained and enlightened millions of TV viewers of all ages on popular shows as diverse as\u00a0The Late Show\u00a0with David Letterman,\u00a0Sesame Street,\u00a0The Frugal Gourmet,\u00a0The Tonight Show,\u00a0and various Grammy Awards telecasts.\u00a0His PBS appearances have included\u00a0A Musical Toast\u00a0and\u00a0Mozart by the Masters, as well as numerous\u00a0Live from Lincoln Center\u00a0broadcasts such as\u00a0The Juilliard School: Celebrating 100 Years.\u00a0In 2008, he joined renowned chef Jacques P\u00e9pin on\u00a0Artist\u2019s Table\u00a0to discuss the relationship between the culinary and musical arts, and lent his voice as the narrator of\u00a0Visions of Israel\u00a0for PBS\u2019s acclaimed\u00a0Visions\u00a0series.\u00a0Itzhak hosted the 1994 U.S. broadcast of the\u00a0Three Tenors, Encore! live from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.\u00a0During the 78th\u00a0Annual Academy Awards in 2006, he performed a live medley from the five film scores nominated in the category of Best Original Score for a worldwide audience in the hundreds of millions.\u00a0One of his proudest achievements is his collaboration with film composer John Williams in Steven Spielberg\u2019s Academy Award-winning film\u00a0Schindler\u2019s List, in which he performed the violin solos.\u00a0He can also be heard as the violin soloist on the soundtrack of Zhang Yimou\u2019s film\u00a0Hero\u00a0(music by Tan Dun) and Rob Marshall\u2019s\u00a0Memoirs of a Geisha\u00a0(music by John Williams).\nItzhak has a long association with the Israel Philharmonic and has participated in many groundbreaking tours with this orchestra from his homeland.\u00a0In 1987, he joined the IPO for history-making concerts in Warsaw and Budapest, representing the first performances by this orchestra and soloist in Eastern bloc countries.\u00a0He again made history as he joined the orchestra for its first visit to the Soviet Union in 1990, and was cheered by audiences in Moscow and Leningrad who thronged to hear his recital and orchestral performances. This visit was captured on a PBS documentary entitled\u00a0Perlman in Russia, which won an Emmy.\u00a0In 1994, he joined the Israel Philharmonic for their first visits to China and India.\nOver the past two decades, Itzhak has become actively involved in music education, using this opportunity to encourage gifted young string players.\u00a0Alongside his wife, Toby, his close involvement in the Perlman Music Program has been a particularly rewarding experience, and he has taught full-time at the Program each summer since its founding in 1993.\u00a0He currently holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair at The Juilliard School.\nNumerous publications and institutions have paid tribute to Itzhak Perlman for the unique place he occupies in the artistic and humanitarian fabric of our times.\u00a0Harvard, Yale, Brandeis, Roosevelt, Yeshiva, and Hebrew universities are among the institutions that have awarded him honorary degrees. He was awarded an honorary doctorate and a centennial medal on the occasion of Juilliard\u2019s 100th\u00a0commencement ceremony in 2005.\u00a0Itzhak Perlman\u2019s presence on stage, on camera, and in personal appearances of all kinds speaks eloquently on behalf of the disabled, and his devotion to their cause is an integral part of his life.\n|,|title|:|violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Hankus Netsky|,|bio|:|A multi-instrumentalist, composer, and ethnomusicologist, Dr. Hankus Netsky is chair of New England Conservatory\u2019s contemporary improvisation department, a pioneering multi-cultural music department now in its 41st year. He also is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble. Hankus has composed extensively for film, theater, and television; collaborated closely with such artists as Itzhak Perlman, Robin Williams, Joel Grey, Theodore Bikel, and Robert Brustein; and produced numerous recordings, including ten by the Klezmer Conservatory Band.\nHe was the recipient of the Yosl Mlotek award and a Forward Fifty award for his role in the resurgence of traditional Eastern European Jewish ethnic musical culture and a New England Conservatory Outstanding Alumni award as well as the Conservatory\u2019s Louis Krasner and Lawrence Lesser awards for Excellence in Teaching. He has taught at McGill University, Hampshire College, Wesleyan University, and Hebrew College. His essays on Jewish music have been published by the University of California Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the University of Scranton Press, Hips Roads, and the University Press of America. Temple University Press published his book, Klezmer, Music and Community in 20th Century Jewish Philadelphia, in 2015.\n|,|title|:|music director, arranger, saxophone, piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Andy Statman|,|bio|:|Born into a family with a long line of cantors, composers, and both classical and vaudeville musicians, Andy Statman grew up in Queens, New York. His early musical memories include 1950s rock and roll, big band jazz, and classical music; family get-togethers where the celebrants danced to klezmer melodies and Tin Pan Alley and Broadway tunes; and the rabbi in his afternoon religious school who sang Hasidic songs. Andy started playing bluegrass at age 12 and was soon performing with local bands at colleges, on radio, in clubs, and at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. At 17, after hearing avant-garde jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, he began studying saxophone. He became a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of legendary klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras, for whom the master wrote a number of melodies and bequeathed four of his clarinets.\nAndy has appeared on more than 100 recordings. His Between Heaven and Earth album was picked as one of the Top Ten CDs of the Year by The New York Times. He has recorded and toured with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Ricky Skaggs, B\u00e9la Fleck, David Grisman, and Itzhak Perlman, among others. A Grammy Award nominee and recipient of grants from the NEA Fellowship and NY State Council on the Arts, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Lincoln Center, the Met, and at major venues throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, and Israel. In 2012, Andy received the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts\u2014the highest honor given to tradition-based musicians and artists in the United States.\n|,|title|:|clarinet, mandolin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Michael Alpert|,|bio|:|Michael Alpert has been a pioneering figure in the renaissance of East European Jewish music and Yiddish culture since the 1970s. He is the recipient of a 2015 National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts\u2013this country\u2019s highest honor for traditional and heritage artists. He is internationally known for award-winning performances and recordings with Brave Old World, David Krakauer, Itzhak Perlman, Theodore Bikel, Daniel Kahn, Frank London, and others. A native Yiddish speaker and one of the only contemporary singers adept in the traditional style of pre-war East European generations, he is also a celebrated innovator in Yiddish song, with original compositions on social and political themes.\nMichael was musical director of the Emmy\/Rose D\u2019Or-winning PBS special Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler’s House, and is featured in film and broadcast media worldwide. An important link to Old World Jewish musicians, he has documented Jewish music and dance around the globe, is a leading teacher and scholar of the Yiddish cultural arts, and has played a central role in the transmission of Ashkenazic music and dance to younger generations. A longtime research associate of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, he is currently a senior research fellow at NYC\u2019s Center for Traditional Music and Dance; he has taught at Oxford, Columbia, and Indiana Universities, and the New England Conservatory of Music. He is married to the literary scholar Emily Finer.\n|,|title|:|vocals, violin |,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Lorin Sklamberg|,|bio|:|Lorin Sklamberg is a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Yiddish-American roots band the Klezmatics; his composition\u00a0Happy Joyous Hanukkah\u00a0with lyrics by Woody\u00a0Guthrie has been published in choral arrangements by Hal Leonard.\u00a0He has been heard on innumerable recordings and live shows, solo and in collaboration with such diverse artists as Jane Siberry, Odetta, Chava Alberstein, Emmylou Harris, Tracy Grammer, Neil Sedaka, Natalie Merchant, and Tony Kushner.\u00a0He has written\u00a0and performed for film, dance, stage, and circus, and has produced a number of recordings of world and theater music. He also teaches Yiddish song from\u00a0S\u00e3o Paulo\u00a0to\u00a0St. Petersburg.\nLorin\u2019s and Frank London\u2019s Hasidic \u201cspiritual\u201d\u00a0programs\u00a0have resulted in three critically-acclaimed recordings.\u00a0Projects\u00a0include\u00a0Saints and Tzadiks\u00a0with Dublin-born chanteuse Susan McKeown,\u00a0the\u00a0score for Erik Anjou\u2019s documentary\u00a0Deli Man\u00a0(USA, 2014);\u00a0the\u00a0Semer Ensemble,\u00a0a celebration of\u00a0Jewish recordings made in Berlin 1933-38;\u00a0the award-winning Yiddish-Bavarian\u00a0Alpen Klezmer\u00a0with Andrea Pancur and Ilya Shneyveys;\u00a0Sklamberg and the Shepherds\u00a0(traditional\u00a0and original Yiddish, Russian, and South Mediterranean music);\u00a0and composer Jocelyn Pook\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0Drawing Life, a multi-media song cycle commissioned by the Jewish Music Institute of London.\u00a0By day, Lorin serves as the sound archivist of New York\u2019s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He is \u201cOne of the premier American singers in any genre,\u201d according to Robert Christgau,\u00a0All Things Considered, National Public Radio.\n|,|title|:|vocals, accordion|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Judy Bressler|,|bio|:|Judy Bressler recorded, as a special guest singer on ARC in 2015 with Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi, City of the Future-Yiddish Songs from the Former Soviet Union. She is a founding member of Boston\u2019s Klezmer Conservatory Band and is the featured vocalist on all ten KCB CD\u2019s. A third-generation Yiddish performer, Judy was seen in the PBS documentary film A Jumpin\u2019 Night In The Garden Of Eden and was featured hilariously with Joel Grey in Borscht Capades \u201994. Being part of In the Fiddler\u2019s House with Itzhak Perlman and company since 1996, the first studio album, the second album \u201clive\u201d at Radio City Music Hall, Mexico City, Moscow, klezzing the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall (debut) in 2015 for 100th anniversary of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and Symphony Hall, Boston (debut) 2016 were all highly memorable events, acclaimed and loved by critics and audiences alike.\n|,|title|:|vocals, percussion|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Frank London|,|bio|:|Frank London\u00a0is a Grammy-award winning trumpeter and composer, a member of the\u00a0Klezmatics, and the leader of the Hungarian-New York band,\u00a0Glass House Orchestra, the bhangra funk group\u00a0Sharabi\u00a0(with Deep Singh), and his\u00a0Shekhinah Big Band. He has performed and recorded with John Zorn, Pink Floyd, Mel Torm\u00e9, Lester Bowie\u2019s Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, and David Byrne. Frank is featured on more than 400 CDs.\nHis own recordings include\u00a0Invocations\u00a0(cantorial music); Frank London\u2019s Klezmer Brass Allstars\u2019\u00a0Di Shikere Kapelye,\u00a0Brotherhood of Brass;\u00a0Nigunim\u00a0and\u00a0The Zmiros Project\u00a0(Jewish mystical songs, with Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg);\u00a0The Debt\u00a0(film and theater music);\u00a0The Shekhina Big Band; the soundtrack to\u00a0The Shvitz; the soundtrack to Perl Gluck’s\u00a0Divan\u00a0and four releases with the Hasidic New Wave. His first symphony,\u00a01001 Voices: A Symphony for Queens\u00a0(with text by Judith Sloan and video by Warren Lehrer)\u00a0for orchestra, chorus, soloists, tabla, erhu,\u00a0narrator, actors, and film premiered in 2012.\nHe is currently composing a Yiddish opera in a Cuban nightclub,\u00a0Hatuey: Memory of Fire\u00a0with Elise Thoron;\u00a0and his latest collaboration is an exploration of klezmer and cantorial music with Cantor Yaakov Lemmer and clarinetist Michael Winograd.\u00a0Frank\u2019s other projects include the folk-opera\u00a0A Night in The Old Marketplace\u00a0(based on Y.L. Peretz’s 1907 play) and the multi-media work\u00a0Salom\u00e9, Woman of Valor\u00a0(with Adeena Karasick).\n|,|title|:|trumpet|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Klezmer Conservatory Band|,|bio|:|A leading voice in the world of klezmer music and Yiddish song for more than 30 years, the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB) continues to thrill audiences all over the world. With a repertoire ranging from Yiddish standards to rousing dance medleys and little-known gems, KCB musicians have served as important ambassadors in promoting the universal appeal of Jewish music.\n \nOver the years, the band has appeared at dozens of international music festivals in major venues across the United States, Europe, and Australia, and on ten international broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. KCB provided the musical accompaniment for The Fool and the Flying Ship, a 1991 video featuring Robin Williams, played an integral rode in Joel Grey\u2019s Borscht Capades \u201994, and performed the music for the much-acclaimed American Repertory Theatre production, Shlemiel the First. Since the late 1990s, Itzhak Perlman has featured KCB in his CD, video, and touring project, In the Fiddler\u2019s House, including performances at Wolf Trap, Great Woods, Radio City Music Hall, the Ravinia Festival, the Saratoga Music Festival, Moscow\u2019s Barvikha Concert Hall, the Mizner Park Amphitheatre in Boca Raton, and the Mann Music Center (Philadelphia).\nIn December 2002, the KCB performed a concert of orchestral arrangements of klezmer and Yiddish music with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In 1988, world-renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones choreographed a piece based on music from their CD, A Jumpin\u2019 Night in the Garden of Eden, for the Boston Ballet. Recently, the band re-joined Itzhak as an integral part of his cantorial\/Hassidic\/klezmer\/Yiddish folk music project, Eternal Echoes, and received rave reviews for their recent Sony CD release and live concert performances, including Boston\u2019s Symphony Hall, Brooklyn\u2019s Barclay\u2019s Center, and the Hollywood Bowl. The band is soon to be featured in Rejoice!, a full-length PBS Great Performances music special.\n|,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}