Phoenix

Our season finale is now just days away (this coming Sunday, May 21st!) and we couldn’t be more excited to share the stage with the Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band. We want to give all of you a bit of their backstory so you can see what the hype is about! 🔥

Ezekiel’s Wheels is an internationally-acclaimed klezmer band that brings passion to every performance, from intimate moments of improvisation to rowdy dance music. They perform Jewish music with a contemporary interpretation, and their style has been influenced by the band’s early days performing different genres of music together at Boston subway stations and farmers’ markets.
They went on to win the jury-awarded City Winery Prize for best klezmer ensemble and the Audience Pick Award at the third biennial International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam in 2012, and since then they have performed at renowned venues such as the Kennedy Center, the Shalin Liu Performance Center, and Yidstock. Their repertoire now inclues original as well as traditional instrumental tunes, and songs in Yiddish and English.

You don’t want to miss this amazing collaboration with Phoenix and Ezekiel’s Wheels!
Join us at the Substation in Roslindale on May 21st at 7pm.
Tickets available now at tickets.phoenixorch.org

Our May 21st concert at The Substation will feature music by many fantastic composers, and we want to give a quick introduction to some of these amazing works before the show!

The first work on our season finale that we would like to introduce is “Three Ancient Airs from Coplas Sefardies” by Alberto Hemsi. Hemsi was a composer who was also very influential in ethnomusicology. Much like Bartok and Vaughan Williams, he took an interest in traditional folk music and began to study it. For Hemsi, Jewish folk music became his fascination, as he had Sephardic Jewish parents and grew up listening to Jewish melodies. His work “Three Ancient Airs from Coplas Sefardies” was written for string quartet, and is derived from Judeo-Spanish songs. The work has been described as “not heavy-duty, deeply metaphysical string quartet music; rather, it is nine minutes of joy.”

Join us and don't miss a chance to hear this wonderful music live at The Substation!
May 21, 7 pm
The Substation
tickets.phoenixorch.org

We loved performing at so much, and we’re thrilled to be heading back next weekend! The substation’s downstairs Workhub space provided a perfectly cozy atmosphere for our parlor concert, but we can’t wait to take over the large upstairs area. Not only is the space roomy, but it also has room for a bar! 🥂

Tickets for our show on May 21st at 7pm available now at tickets.phoenixorch.org

An exciting update to our final concert of the season:
We’re thrilled to announce that our season finale at , conducted by music director Joshua Weilerstein, will now also feature the fantastic klezmer band “Ezekiel’s Wheels!” 🔥
In addition to our original program, which celebrates Jewish music throughout western classical music history, we will also be performing Abigale Reisman’s “Gedanken”, arranged specifically for this performance and featuring the incredible Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band. Check out our full program below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Dmitri Shostakovich arr. Rudolf Barshai - Chamber Symphony, Op. 83a (Arrangement of String Quartet No. 4)
Felix Mendelssohn - Scherzo from Octet for Strings
Pavel Haas - Study for Strings
Alberto Hemsi - Three Ancient Airs from Coplas Sefardies
Salamone Rossi - Sonata Quatra sopra l'aria di Ruggiero
Abigale Reisman - Gedanken

Season Finale: Phoenix on the Roof
May 21, 7pm
The Substation Roslindale
Tickets on sale now at tickets.phoenix.org