Saxophonist Greg Wall and his Unity Orchestra, comprising musicians from five continents, will headline this year’s L’Dor Vador concert at Congregation B’nai Tikvah.
If you go
The L’Dor Vador concert, featuring Greg Wall and the Unity Orchestra and six other musicians, will be held on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 4 p.m. at Congregation B’nai Tikvah in North Brunswick. Tickets cost $18, $10 for students, free for children. Reserve seating is available for $36. The cost for the family dinner (provided by Classical Caterers) that will follow the concert is $18 for adults, $9 for students, free for children three and under.
Attendees are asked to bring nonperishable food items for donation to local food bank. For information, call the synagogue at 732-297-0696 or visit www.bnaitikvah.org.
November 4, 2008
Leading Jewish musicians backed by a “global jam band” will come together Sunday, Nov. 16, at Congregation B’nai Tikvah in North Brunswick to celebrate Jewish music from around the world.
Organizers are calling the second L’Dor Vador concert “The Wandering Jew” as it will feature a range of influences from across the globe — from the Lower East Side to Calcutta.
“From generation to generation, l’dor vador, we are all connected to each other,” said Cantor Bruce Rockman, who hopes to make the concert an annual event. “Our generation — parents of children of all ages — is primed to transmit the lessons of our parents to future generations.
“My dream is to have a continuing series of soaring artistic and intellectual events sponsored by and at B’nai Tikvah.”
Last year’s program, featuring Neshama Carlebach with the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir, drew more than 400 people.
After this year’s performance, an “affordable” family dinner will be held where participants “can bask in the glory of the music they just heard,” Rockman said.
David and Cindy Teicher and Mark and Judy Roller donated the seed money for the concert series, which is dedicated to the memory of David’s parents, Claire and Irving Teicher.
Trumpeter, composer, and klezmer musician Frank London.
The money has gone into a foundation, the B’nai Tikvah Endowment for the Arts, to underwrite such programs at the Conservative congregation.
“I had a dream and they fostered it for me,” said Rockman. “This will be a source of pride and enlightenment for this congregation.”
Serving as musical director for this year’s concert will be saxophonist Greg Wall of West Orange backed by his Unity Orchestra, featuring eight musicians from five continents. Wall is at home in jazz as he is in world music and has taken part in a number of notable projects with Jewish performers and klezmer musicians.
Also appearing on the bill will be composer Frank London of the Klezmatics, perhaps the best known of the klezmer revival bands, and his own Klezmer Brass All-Stars.
They will be joined by Jerusalem-born Shai Bachar, whose collaborations range from Afro-Cuban Latin-jazz to Sephardi Jewish music, and Adrienne Cooper, who has performed Yiddish songs with a number of groups and singers.
Also performing will be musician Noah Solomon; Rahel Musleah, an expert in the Jewish culture of her native Calcutta, India; and Avram Pengas, who performs music of the Mediterranean region reflecting Greek, Turkish, Israeli pop, Arabic, Latin, and Armenian influences.
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