Re: Looking for Music for Mandolin Quartet (for Bar Mitzvah)

[jeremyb <jeremyb...>]

you should contact Eric Stein who is a klezmer musician and plays in the 
toronto mandolin orchestra. I don't have his email on me but I am sure 
someone here does. he had a pritty good romaninan arangment at klezkanada

jeremy

www.jeremyb.com



> 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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