“A Lit­tle Night­mare Music”

Just when you thought it was safe…

The con­cert begins. The music is sub­lime. Not even a pin would dare drop. Sud­denly, a cell­phone rings and the mad­ness starts. 

The pianist loses his hand, the vio­lin­ist, while tun­ing, falls asleep, and later wakes up in the mid­dle of a motor­way, trans­formed into a “River­dancer”.

 When the pianist returns, the piano is locked, telling him to insert his credit card. 

Mean­while, the vio­lin­ist loses his bow to a vac­uum cleaner and his part­ner just talks on the phone while read­ing a paper, eat­ing, and, play­ing the piano upside down all at the same time. These and many other “night­mares” unfold before audi­ences’ eyes and ears.

“A Lit­tle Night­mare Music” is a unique show, full of vir­tu­os­ity, enchant­ing music and zany, out­ra­geous humour. 

Ideal for audi­ences aged 8 to 88, this show is sure to cap­ti­vate you and crack you up whether you’re a clas­si­cal music enthu­si­ast or the type who runs for cover, at the mere men­tion of Mozart.

“BIG Night­mare Music”

Igudes­man & Joo with Orchestra

IGUDESMAN & JOO’s musi­cal mad­ness on a sym­phonic scale

When IGUDESMAN & JOO per­form with a sym­phony orches­tra, the musi­cal night­mares take on epic pro­por­tions! Fans of “A Lit­tle Night­mare Music” will be falling all over them­selves to expe­ri­ence peren­nial favorites like Mozart Bond, Alla Molto Turca and Clean­ing vs. River­danc­ing amped up for a full-blown orches­tra. But on top of price­less adap­ta­tions of pieces from their duo-show, “BIG Night­mare Music” boasts sev­eral uproar­i­ous sketches tailor-made for a sym­phony orches­tra, draw­ing every­one into their act, from the first vio­lin­ist to the last per­cus­sion­ist. What’s more, you will have the added oppor­tu­nity of hear­ing Igudes­man and Joo per­form as soloists, both in well-known con­cer­tos and in their own orches­tral works.

IGUDESMAN & JOO are always too BIG for any stage but now pic­ture the duo in Won­der­land after eat­ing that cake which makes you grow… A scary thought? There you have it: “BIG Night­mare Music”!

The show includes music by Mozart, Rach­mani­nov, Bach, Vivaldi, Strauss, Beethoven, Igudes­man, Joo.

Quotes

“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“
MARK SWED — LA TIMES

“The fun­ni­est show on music and the life of musi­cians I have seen since the great Vic­tor Borge. I couldnt stop cry­ing of laugh­ter for the whole evening. Go see these gifted musi­cians. What they show is life at its fun­ni­est side. It isn’t just enter­tain­ing, it is hilar­i­ous! “
GIDON KREMER — violinist

“I had the time of my life when I first saw them live in action, and felt hon­ored to put in a cameo in some of their nutty skits! Take the oppor­tu­nity to get a taste of their over brim­ming musi­cal imag­i­na­tion”!
EMANUEL AX — Pianist

“A Lit­tle Night­mare Music brings sur­re­al­ism to the con­cert hall and takes its trousers down! Very musi­cal, very engag­ing and very funny. 
A Big Hand for A Lit­tle Night­mare Music’s Big Hands.“
TERRY JONES — comedian/Monty Python/director

A Lit­tle Night­mare Music as a title is a mis­nomer.. Igudes­man and Joo are a DREAM …watch them!“
SIR ROGER MOORE — actor

“Alek­sey Igudes­man and Hyung-ki Joo played at my 80th birth­day 
cel­e­bra­tions. I nearly died laugh­ing. I’d like to invite them back 
for my 85th, but that might be con­sid­ered reck­less.….. Great 
musi­cians, great fun.
BERNARD HAITINK — conductor

“Igudes­man and Joo are not only musi­cal vir­tu­osi but also comic mae­stros. Any thing they touch turns to gold and I am enchanted by them every time I see them. Def­i­nitely one of the fun­ni­est and most enter­tain­ing shows I have ever seen and I can’t wait to see them again in action!“
MISCHA MAISKY — cellist

“Hear­ing and see­ing Igudes­man and Joo per­form­ing live is expe­ri­enc­ing pure musi­cian­ship, won­der­ful act­ing, sophis­ti­ca­tion and a ter­rific sense of humor. Their lack of pre­ten­tious­ness and the joy of their music-making offer an irre­sistible invi­ta­tion into the world of clas­si­cal music. I can’t wait to bring them back!”
HANNA ARIE-GAIFMAN — Direc­tor 92nd Street Y, Tisch Cen­ter for the Arts, New York