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Temple Israel Center White Plains will hold its fifth annual Herman Tucker Memorial Concert on Sunday, June 1, at 7 p.m., at 280 Old Mamaroneck Road. The concert will feature the Hazonos Project playing a unique fusion of jazz and cantorial music with trumpeter Frank London and Cantor Jacob Mendelson.
General admission tickets are $45, $30 students and seniors. Tickets include a dessert reception. For information, call S. Galla at 948-2800 Ext. 112.
London is a member of the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave and has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Tonne, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5, Mark Ribot, Maurice El Medioni and Gal Costa. He is featured on over 100 CDs. His own recordings include "Invocations" (cantorial music).
He was music director for David Byrne and Robert Wilson's "The Knee Plays," collaborated with Palestinian violinist Simon Shaheen, taught Jewish music in Canada, Crimea and the Catskills.
He has been featured on HBO's "Sex and the City," at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, and co-founded Les Miserables Brass Band and Klezmer Conservatory Band.
Mendelson, who has been at Temple Israel Center for over 10 years, grew up in Brooklyn. He has just finished his tenure as president of the Cantors Assembly of America, the largest body of cantors in the world. Following a recent historic concert in Carnegie Hall, celebrating the 5Oth anniversary of the Cantors Assembly, The New York Times hailed his performance as "stunning."
Mendelson taught at the Hebrew Union College-School of Sacred Music, the H.L. Miller Cantorial School at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Academy of Jewish Religion. He is sought after as a teacher in the world of hazzanut.
A documentary film, "A Cantor's Tale," dealing with the entire spectrum of cantorial music today, from the prism of Mendelson's career, is now being prepared for PBS and other venues. Mendelson has made numerous recordings, both solo and with other cantors. He is the director of Temple Israel Center's Legacy Music Series. 06/02/06
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