WHAT CLIENTS HAVE SAID ABOUT THE HERITAGE ENSEMBLE:
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"Your remarkable ingenuity in resetting very familiar Hebraic melodies into concert-jazz settings inspires a sense of renewed commitment to our Jewish heritage, and reminds us that we are a surviving people precisely because of our abilities to adapt to new realms and bring our unique culture and philosophies always into the present."
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Charles M. Mirotznik, President, Dance Library of Israel |
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"On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the SAJ Community, thank you for providing us with a special evening which will be remembered for a very long time."
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Dolores Pellman
Chairperson, Board of Trustees
Society for the Advancement of Judaism |
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"We at Beyond Shelter want to thank you for being with us at our fund-raising Jewish Festival of Music. You certainly added so much to that evening, not only as great individual musicians, but also by taking old familiar Hebrew tunes and combining them with our American art form of jazz. It is such a unique idea. The audience loved it, and you helped make the evening a huge success."
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Anne Meyer (Program Chair)
Henry Freedman (Beyond Shelter Chair)
Jewish Festival of Music/Symphony Space |
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"You skillfully unfolded a playfulness full of musical wit and harmonic fun. Using jazz to illuminate traditional Jewish melodies, you made the familiar into the sublime."
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Rabbi Edward Feld
Society for the Advancement of Judaism |
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"I want to thank The Heritage Ensemble for its performance at City of Hope's Hearts for Hope event. Your group was a wonderful addition to the evening and added a special flair. As with many events, it is the entertainment that makes it memorable. Thank you for being that memorable part of the evening."
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Maren Gaughan, Associate Vice President of Development |
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"Thanks for adding the magic to our events."
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Karen Ellis
Executive Director, Advancement Operations
Baruch College,
New York City |
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"Thanks for such a wonderful evening. The music really gave the symposium a touch of class."
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Paul Arpaia, Schwartz Communications Institute |
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"The Heritage Ensemble performed in front of an impossible crowd of artists, academics and anarchists from Australia, France, England, Israel, Brazil, the United States and California. For this party I was looking for an experience that was quintessentially New York. The Heritage Ensemble delivered beyond my expectations... cool, understated, sophisticated, so New York. They were great."
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Paul Thompson
New York University |
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"Thanks so very much for the gift of your music at my retirement party. It will always bring a smile to my lips whenever I remember it! The creativity was such a gift and a true inspiration."
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Professor Talia Schenkel
Baruch College |
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 Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble has developed a repertoire of Jewish liturgical pieces and Israeli folksongs arranged in various jazz and neo-classical styles.
Over the years The Heritage Ensemble has performed these arrangements in various venues, such as Symphony Space (Beyond Shelter), Synagogue Anche Chesed, Congregation Rodeph Shalom, The Society for Advancement of Judaism, and Tavern on the Green (The Dance Library of Israel).
The Heritage Ensemble is available to perform these arrangements live. Please contact Eugene Marlow at 718-858-3384 or via email at meiienterprises@aol.com for more information.
A New CD!
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Making the Music Our Own
Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble interprets melodies from the Hebraic Songbook.
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To hear a sampling of these arrangements, click on PLAY below.
- V'Taher Lebeinu/Yis M'Chu ("Purify our hearts to serve you in truth/Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice") 7:40
- L'Cha Dodi ("Beloved, come to meet Shabbat") 4:17
- Halleluyah ("Praise the Lord") 4:17
- Bilbililos ("Rock from whose store we have eaten. . .") 6:30
- Hatikva ("The Hope") 6:37
- Heiveinu Shalom Aleichem ("Peace unto you") 2:51
- Avinu Malkeinu ("Hear our voice") 4:39
- Ata Hu Hashem ("You are the Lord, Our God") 4:23
- Hinei Ma Tov ("Behold how good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity") 3:27
"Gene Marlow's 'Making the Music Our Own' is a remarkable musical achievement-- traditional liturgical melodies meet up with a contemporary jazz sensibility, and are rediscovered in a new musical and spiritual light!"
Isaiah Sheffer, Artistic Director
Symphony Space, New York City
"Eugene Marlow gives a fresh and contemporary flair to some of the most beloved songs and prayers of the Jewish people."
Hadassah Markson
Former Music Director, 92nd Street Y
President, Center for Contemporary Opera
"Gene Marlow's jazz renditions let us hear traditional Hebrew melodies in stirring new ways. I loved it. I just loved it!"
Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark
Co-Host and Co-Producer "Beyond The Pale: The Progressive Jewish Radio Hour"
WBAI (New York City)
"Your remarkable ingenuity in resetting very familiar Hebraic melodies into concert-jazz
settings inspires a sense of renewed commitment to our Jewish heritage, and reminds us that we are a surviving people precisely because of our abilities to adapt to new realms and bring our unique culture and philosophies always into the present."
Charles M. Mirotznik, Esq., former President
Dance Library of Israel
With a repertoire of jazz and pop standards, The Heritage Ensemble has also played for dozens of private occasions and organizations at such performance venues as:- Baruch College
- Capitale
- Elaine’s
- Hunter College
- School of Visual Arts
- The County Seat (Litchfield, CT)
- The Marriott Hotel (downtown Brooklyn)
- The Marriott Hotel (Financial Center)
- The Museum of Modern Art
- The National Arts Club
- The New York Palace
- The Waterside (Long Island City)
Musician configurations range from solo piano to dance band sextets.
Read "Making the Music Our Own": The Adaptability of Jewish Liturgical and Folk Music here.
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