TMF 2025 Gala Concert Program
Concert produced and directed by MARK LUDWIG
The Legacy Continues reflects music’s enduring power to transcend time, linking Bach’s luminous genius with the searching contemporary voices of Brad Mehldau and Keith Jarrett. For TMF, legacy is not something preserved in silence but kept alive through imagination, remembrance, and the ongoing act of creation.
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
J.S. BACH Inventions BWV 722-786
Brad Mehldau Suite for piano (for Simone)
PAUSA
J.S. BACH Sinfonias BWV 787-801
Keith Jarrett Encore from Tokyo
(tr. Uwe Karcher)
TMF Commission “Brad Mehldau Suite for piano” was generously sponsored by
longtime TMF supporters Penny and Claudio Pincus.
Penny and Claudio Pincus and their extended family in the USA, Israel, Chile, and S Africa have supported Jewish communities and institutions dedicated to education, social action, advocacy, and the arts with leadership, resources, and volunteer work.
Currently directly involved with AJC in New Jersey, Board of the Joint Distribution Committee, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Chairman of the international Board of Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano.
They have been part of AJC, including missions to Israel and Europe, for more than 30 years.
They are supporters in Israel of projects in education and youth at risk, particularly related to the impact of the war. They have developed programs to ensure the continuity of Jewish professionals at the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano and to support music education with the Israel Philharmonic.
The family are children of survivors and have extended family members in the IDF, the government, and nonprofit organizations in Israel.
Members of the Ohr Shalom in Summit, B’Nai Jeshurun NYC, the Berkshire Minyan, and B’Israel Chile. Claudio and Penny are proud parents and grandparents of Aaron, Christine, Reya, and Seth of Fishkill, NY, and of Daniel, Becky, Emmet, and Adam of NYC.