S ince 1991, Green has developed a unique musical partnership with classically trained pianist, composer and arranger James L. Hart. This collaboration has included world wide concerts of swinging classics to the beat of a jazz trio.

Their 1995 CD, Ole-Cool, includes Jim Hart's jazzy arrangements of Bach, Vivaldi and Spanish flamenco music of Enric Palomar recorded with Barcelona colleagues in Spain.

Green had previously founded the Cincinnati Symphony Klezmer Ensemble and performed with guest artist/arranger Hankus Nersky, clarinetist Don Byron from the Klezmer Conservatory Orchestra (of Boston), the celebrated cantor/tenor Abe Mizrahi and the Zamir Choir of Boston conducted by Joshua Jacobson.

In December 1999, Hart and Green will perform at Old First Concert:s with San Francisco Temple Emanuel's cantor Roslyn Barak. In March 2000, Green will play Norman Dinerstein's Haskivenu for solo bass, cantor and choir with the University of California, Santa Cruz Concert Choir conducted by Margaret Kvamme with tenor Brian Staufenbiel.

This year's concerts include performances of Soul to Klezmer at Leighton House in London, Ortawa, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Norfolk and at Temple Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa, California.

The Hart/Green Duo present a dynamic eclectic program called From Soul to Klezmer. This unique program of mostly Jewish music will delight audiences in temples, Jewish community centers, retirement communities, festivals, clubs, concert series, apartment/condo complexes, conventions and special events.

The duo program can be augmented to indude Green's percussionist son, your local cantor or Yiddish singer.

For further information about designing a special program for your organization, availability and fees, please contact Barry Green at the numbers below.

Cantor/Soprano Rosalyn Barak with James Hart and Barry Green

Barry and Jim continue to develop their repertoire, performing, arranging and commlsslonlng new music. The music includes ethnic harmonies, melodies and rhythms from Israel, Spain, France, Ireland, Asia, Africa, Middle-East and America. Their concert features two commissioned works from the celebrated Jewish English composer Tony Osborne.

For the SOUL part of the program, Green and Hart may perform Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei, Ernest Bloch's Prayer, Zimbalist's Hebrew Song and Dance, Lazar Weiner's Chanson Hebraique, Hart's arrangement of Avenu Malkenu or music from Vivaldi, Rabbath or American composer Frank Proto. Osborne's other work, The Jazz Suite, has a 15 minute middle movement dedicated to the memory of the internationally known English Rabbi Hugo Gryn entitled Ner Tamud (Eternal Light).

For the KLEZMER part of the program, Green's newest commission from Osborne is A Yiddish/Klexmer Fantasy (in three movements)...an exciting virtuoso arrangement of Jewish themes, doinas and freyleckhs. Other Klezmer favorites include A Yor Nakh Mayn Khasene, Freyleckh and Yodelich and If I Were a Rich Man.



Barry Green, formerly Principal Bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony for 28 years, is currently working in the San Francisco Bay Area as a solo bass recitalist, author and teacher of young bassists. He teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Symphony Education Departrnent and the Stanley/Lafayette Bass Program. Green directs the Bay Bass Band, an ensemble of five classical and jazz bassists plus percussion and plays as Principal Bassist with the California Symphony and the Sun Valley Idaho Summer Symphony. As the author of The Inner Game of Music (with W. T imothy Gallwey), he conducts seminars and workshops throughout the world.

Green recently authored a unique series of books, The Popular Bass Method, with local jazz bassist Jeff Neighbor. He has also developed an Inner Game of Music Lecture/Concert, A Journey Into the Mind of the Performer.