Igudesman & Joo Tickets

I never saw an act like that it was different and very entertaining

Very funny! A must for any classical musician with even a slight sense of humor!

Simply an amazing performance, absolutely worth it! Much better in person than the videos. Overall an amazing night!

What a great evening, we laughed, we cried...only because we were laughing so hard. I brought my senior dad, and children, the show appealed to all. As an added bonus, the kids were impressed with how much fun music lessons might be, I just hope they don't take the electric drill to our piano. We have followed this group for years in Europe, it was great they came to the U.S.

I heard these 2 performers on a local NPR station and new i needed to buy tickets. I was not disappointed. They are very talented musicians and performers. My wife's cheeks hurt from laughing and i had tears running down my face i was laughing so hard.

Ingudesman & Joo are the John Belushis of the classical music scene. Insanely talented, they've put their gifts to theoretically baser uses; finding semi-crass jokes in the white lace and vest world of classical performance. Their stuff is funny; a "big hands" performance of Rachmaninov using wooden sticks to span the enormous octave reach required; a performance of Mozart disrupted by New World agonizing about how the music hasn't opened their chakras, resulting in bizarre modulations when one note is changed; a piano that morphs into a fee-for-service instrument with too little time on the clock. The audience laughs; at first genuinely, and towards the end, exhausted by the stream of sophomoric wit, a bit dutifully. But they laugh primarily because of their complete willingness to take absolutely nothing seriously, including themselves, and because, well, they're just THAT good ... An unfortunate bit is that Berklee scheduled a downstairs rehearsal hall for a funk band, and they insisted on going forward with this discordant noise in the middle of Igudesman & Joo's performance. For an institution that reveres music and encourages and teaches young musicians, this was a very, very bad lesson to teach. Berklee had a lot of nerve to have audience members sit with this near-constant distraction.

The whole time through the concert, I could here drums and other band rehearsals going on somewhere near the concert hall. It was very distracting. Also, the crowd where I was sitting wasn't too respectful, making all kinds of noise during quiet portions. Both igudesman and joo were hilarious, but I would have enjoyed it more in a different venue.