Our music includes Jewish Music arranged for string quartet
including Yiddish songs, Wedding Music, traditional joyous and moving
Hebrew, & Israeli music from both sacred and secular sources.
OUR TYPICAL PROGRAMS include medleys containing Popular Jewish
Melodies arranged for String Quartet; Simon Tov, Hevenu Shalom, Od
Yishama, Sherele & Chosen Kallah Mazel Tov; including Erev Shel
Shoshanim (An Evening of Roses), Dodi Li, K'var Achare Chatsot,
K'shoshana Ben Hachochim, Klezmer Wedding Medleys including Doinas,
Horas, Chusidls, & Freylachs and NEW ARRANGEMENTS by Harris
Shilakowsky of Freylach Zain, Patch Tantz, a Jewish Wedding March,
Sher, Tumbalalaika, Mamele, Chosen Kale Mazel Tov, Broyges Tantz,
etc.
Classical selections include wedding march (Mendelssohn), Brandenburg
Concerto by Bach, Meditation from "Thaïs" (Massanet), Canon
(Pachelbel), Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart), Water Music (Handel),
Sinfonies De Fanfares, Rondeau (Mouret), Hornpipe from Water Music
(Handel)
Our Quartet consists of professional string players who are all
active free-lance musicians performing regularly with groups such as
the Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, and the Lyric Opera Company of
Boston. The leader, Harris Shilakowsky, is former concertmaster of
the New Orleans, London, Omaha, and Grand Rapids Symphony
Orchestras.