Here is another teaser from the documentary that is in the works which will be released at the end of this year from the innovative and respected filmmakers Daniel Finkernagel and Alexander Lück for ZDF Television. This clip features us fooling around "classically" with the legends of the pop world that include Simple Minds, Tears for Fears, Kim Wilde, Midge Ure (Ultravox and co-creator of Live Aid), Dennis de Young (Styx), and 10cc ("I'm not in Love"). For more about Finkernagel and Luck and the documentary in progress, please visit http://www.finkernagel-lueck.d e

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Igudesman & Joo Live in Rotterdam

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Igudesman & Joo Live from Sportpaleis Antwerp.

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Aleksey Igudesman & Sebastian Gürtler, together with the Upper Austrian Youth Orchestra in a project called "The Cyber Conductor".

This is a piece called "Uruguay" composed by Aleksey Igudesman.

The DVD (spoken text in German without subtitles!) is available at 19 Euro a piece + 5 Euro shipping.

For ordering please contact:
pa.igudesman@gmail.com

www.musicandcomedy.com
www.ooejo.eduhi.at
www.sebastian.amarcord.at

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From a Masterclass by Billy Joel with Guest Richard Hyung-ki Joo performing selections from "Fantasies and Delusions"

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Was inspired by the "Rachmaninov had big hands" video and decided to make my own sticks, this is how it turned out!

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To see upcoming performances of Igudesman & Joo visit our website www.igudesmanandjoo.com

Our new title for this show is -
BEING GIDON KREMER: The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician

Written by: Kremer, Igudesman & Joo

Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Dear Concertgoer!

Music and humor—both are languages of the emotions. Join us on a journey through our wacky hall of mirrors and see for yourself all the weird and wonderful ways these two languages come together to reflect the Zeitgeist of the new millennium.

We live in an age in which the market economy tyrannizes over art. The quality of an artwork is judged by the quantity of sales. We all squint at the sales-volume statistics, the chart placement and the commercial media presence. The more popular, the better. Everyone wants to be a superstar!

But in consequence, we all too often lose sight of the true meaning of music: the uplifting union of feeling and intellect, the intimate and profoundly emotional expression of the soul.

BEING GIDON KREMER takes a critical and entertaining look at classical music through a magnifying glass. By means of this close-up, we hope to achieve a healthy distance from all forms of commercial dumbing-down.

So lets laugh together about whats laughable, and marvel afresh at musics endless marvels!

We wish you a wonderful musical journey!
We, meaning Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo.

Music in its most beautiful form is the all-healing language of love.
Richard Wagner

These are among the composers whose masterpieces, or bits of them, you will hear:
Bach, Chaplin, Dvorak, Dunayevski, Haydn, Igudesman, Joo, Kupkovic, Mahler, Mozart, Piazzolla, Prokofiev, Rochberg, Rota, Schnittke, Schostakowitsch, J. Strauss.

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To see upcoming performances of Igudesman & Joo visit our website www.igudesmanandjoo.com

Our new title for the show is -
BEING GIDON KREMER: The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician

Written by: Kremer, Igudesman & Joo

Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Dear Concertgoer!

Music and humor—both are languages of the emotions. Join us on a journey through our wacky hall of mirrors and see for yourself all the weird and wonderful ways these two languages come together to reflect the Zeitgeist of the new millennium.

We live in an age in which the market economy tyrannizes over art. The quality of an artwork is judged by the quantity of sales. We all squint at the sales-volume statistics, the chart placement and the commercial media presence. The more popular, the better. Everyone wants to be a superstar!

But in consequence, we all too often lose sight of the true meaning of music: the uplifting union of feeling and intellect, the intimate and profoundly emotional expression of the soul.

BEING GIDON KREMER takes a critical and entertaining look at classical music through a magnifying glass. By means of this close-up, we hope to achieve a healthy distance from all forms of commercial dumbing-down.

So lets laugh together about whats laughable, and marvel afresh at musics endless marvels!

We wish you a wonderful musical journey!
We, meaning Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo.

Music in its most beautiful form is the all-healing language of love.
Richard Wagner

These are among the composers whose masterpieces, or bits of them, you will hear:
Bach, Chaplin, Dvorak, Dunayevski, Haydn, Igudesman, Joo, Kupkovic, Mahler, Mozart, Piazzolla, Prokofiev, Rochberg, Rota, Schnittke, Schostakowitsch, J. Strauss.

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To see upcoming performances of Igudesman & Joo visit our website www.igudesmanandjoo.com

Our new title for the show is -
BEING GIDON KREMER: The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician

Written by: Kremer, Igudesman & Joo

Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Dear Concertgoer!

Music and humor—both are languages of the emotions. Join us on a journey through our wacky hall of mirrors and see for yourself all the weird and wonderful ways these two languages come together to reflect the Zeitgeist of the new millennium.

We live in an age in which the market economy tyrannizes over art. The quality of an artwork is judged by the quantity of sales. We all squint at the sales-volume statistics, the chart placement and the commercial media presence. The more popular, the better. Everyone wants to be a superstar!

But in consequence, we all too often lose sight of the true meaning of music: the uplifting union of feeling and intellect, the intimate and profoundly emotional expression of the soul.

BEING GIDON KREMER takes a critical and entertaining look at classical music through a magnifying glass. By means of this close-up, we hope to achieve a healthy distance from all forms of commercial dumbing-down.

So lets laugh together about whats laughable, and marvel afresh at musics endless marvels!

We wish you a wonderful musical journey!
We, meaning Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo.

Music in its most beautiful form is the all-healing language of love.
Richard Wagner

These are among the composers whose masterpieces, or bits of them, you will hear:
Bach, Chaplin, Dvorak, Dunayevski, Haydn, Igudesman, Joo, Kupkovic, Mahler, Mozart, Piazzolla, Prokofiev, Rochberg, Rota, Schnittke, Schostakowitsch, J. Strauss.

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From Igudesman & Joo's "A Little Nightmare Music" aired on TV2 & TV5's "Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde" 2008.

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Igudesman & Joo Live in Rotterdam

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Igudesman & Joo Live from Sportpaleis Antwerp.

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www.igudesmanandjoo.com
Part2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =eINAql8z8Yw Part3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =yhIfQ0XqHWU Part4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =s9urNfqMGRE
"Looking for Mozart" just "happened" to us. Everything we say here is improvised and entirely unscripted, as most people can guess. We were searching for new ideas for "A Little Nightmare Music" during a trip to Italy, filming ourselves in order not to forget what we said. When we looked through the material, we realized that most of it was unusable in any way whatsoever. We decided to take the worst of that and make a "mockumentary", or rather a "crapumentary", out of it. It happened to be the "Mozart Year", which was a big thing in Vienna and, although we love his music, very annoying to musicians who were force-fed Mozart on a daily base. There are a few brief clips with Gidon Kremer, which we filmed after a performance in his Lockenhaus Festival. We are presently developing a new music & comedy project with Gidon and the Kremerata Baltica, which is due to be premiered in 2008.

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www.igudesmanandjoo.com
Part3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =yhIfQ0XqHWU Part4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =s9urNfqMGRE
"Looking for Mozart" just "happened" to us. Everything we say here is improvised and entirely unscripted, as most people can guess. We were searching for new ideas for "A Little Nightmare Music" during a trip to Italy, filming ourselfs in order not to forget what we said. When we looked through the material, we realized that most of it was unusable in any way whatshowever. We decided to take the worst of that and make a "mocumentary", or rather a "crapumentary", out of it. It happened to be the "Mozart Year", which was a big thing in Vienna and, although we love his music, very annoying to musicians who were force-fed Mozart on a daily base. There are a few brief clips with Gidon Kremer, which we filmed after a performance in his Lockenhaus Festival. We are presently developing a new music & comedy project with Gidon and the Kremerata Baltica, which is due to be premiered in 2008.

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www.igudesmanandjoo.com
Part4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =s9urNfqMGRE
"Looking for Mozart" just "happened" to us. Everything we say here is improvised and entirely unscripted, as most people can guess. We were searching for new ideas for "A Little Nightmare Music" during a trip to Italy, filming ourselfs in order not to forget what we said. When we looked through the material, we realized that most of it was unusable in any way whatshowever. We decided to take the worst of that and make a "mocumentary", or rather a "crapumentary", out of it. It happened to be the "Mozart Year", which was a big thing in Vienna and, although we love his music, very annoying to musicians who were force-fed Mozart on a daily base. There are a few brief clips with Gidon Kremer, which we filmed after a performance in his Lockenhaus Festival. We are presently developing a new music & comedy project with Gidon and the Kremerata Baltica, which is due to be premiered in 2008.

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