Looking for Music for Mandolin Quartet (for Bar Mitzvah)

[jfabrams <jfabrams...>]

I'm relatively new to the list and I have a question.  I play mandocello in
the Pittsburgh Mandolin Orchestra, along with several other musicians who
play mandolin, mandola, guitar, bass, in addition to one other mandocello
player.  The orchestra includes between fifteen and twenty players.  As you
know, the pitches of the mandolin family instruments (mandolin, mandola,
mandocello) correspond to their string equivalents (violin, viola, and
cello).  (At this moment I'm listening to the exquisite playing of the
Israeli mandolin quartet, the Kerman Mandolin Quartet).

I wondered if anyone out there knows of a Klezmer/Jewish-inflected score
that would be appropriate for mandolin orchestra or mandolin quartet.  A
score with parts for traditional string quartet would fit the bill.  And if
the music in question is available on disc so much the better.  The
performance context for this music will be my son's Bar Mitzvah in March.
I'm hoping to locate the music in time for the orchestra to adequately
rehearse the piece and then we'll play it at some point during the ceremony.
Many thanks for your help.

James Abrams
Johnstown, PA


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