Bravo. Well Done.
Often the best parts of the concert are the encores. So why not start right away with them? In fact – what if every piece was an encore?
Play it Again, IGUDESMAN & JOO’s third duo show, (after A Little Nightmare Music and AND NOW MOZART), is a topsy‐turvy, upside‐down, insideout show, taking audience’s wishes for them to “play it again” and giving them far more than they wished for!
Although no two performances of IGUDESMAN & JOO’s are ever really the same, Play it Again explicitly promises that each night will be so wildly different from one another that audiences will have to come back again. Every piece on the night will be spontaneously decided before, and there will be occasions for fans to send in their requests for specific performances giving them the opportunity to actively engage in the direction the show will take on that particular night. Furthermore, having toured the world for over a decade, and doing their best to perform in the local language, Play it Again will be presented in IGUDESMAN & JOO’s new linguistic form, a sort of global, multi‐cultured Esperanto‐ish language which everyone will be able to understand all over the world: Joodesmanish!
Once IGUDESMAN & JOO Play It Again you will want to “Hear It Again”!
What others say
“Describing the Igudesman & Joo humor in detail would be to deflate its brilliance. For the put-upon Igudesman, think Jack Benny and Jascha Heifetz rolled into one. For the zany Joo, try an unholy Chico Marx, Vladimir Horowitz and Jerry Lewis mash-up […] The Igudesman & Joo anthem is Gloria Gaynor’s ‘70s hit song “I Will Survive.” Igudesman begins it as if singing a Russian folk song, and he electrifies it by playing on the violin strings with an electric swizzle stick (on a priceless 1717 Santo Seraphin violin, no less). Ultimately, it survives – barely and hilariously — as an unclassifiable audience sing‐along. But the idea of surviving is also a serious business with these two miraculous performers“
“What makes the slapstick duo so original is not that they turn classical music culture upside-down and inside out, but that they never mess with the music itself, treating that with not just respect, but with astonishing virtuosity.”